{"id":4024,"date":"2014-10-13T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2017-10-25T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:29:27","slug":"focus-solar-microgrids-fossil-fuel-wavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/focus-solar-microgrids-fossil-fuel-wavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on solar microgrids as fossil fuel wavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4030\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/microgrid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4030\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/microgrid.jpg\" alt=\"microgrid with solar and PV\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking whole streets (or villages) off the grid is likely to become more common.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What role will community-based solar microgrids play as Aussies look for environmental and affordable energy alternatives?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, I should explain what a microgrid actually is. It is simply a cluster of buildings, all connected together electrically, but not connected to the wider electric grid. An example would be taking your whole street off the grid instead of simply your own home. If you do this, you can share solar generation and battery storage among other things. As feed in tariffs get lower, this becomes more attractive. Wouldn&#8217;t you rather your sell excess solar energy to your neighbour for a fair price than be forced to sell it to someone like Energex for a miserly 6c per kWh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to analysts Frost and Sullivan\u2019s report \u201c<em>Analysis of the Asia-Pacific Microgrid Market\u201d<\/em> the microgrid electrification (including solar programs) is expected to reach a sales figure of $813 million by 2020, growing at an expected astonishing rise of 38.3 percent over that of 2013. Countries surveyed by Frost and Sullivan include Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and (yes!) Australia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While unplugging from the grid isn\u2019t yet a financial option for most people, research by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyforthepeople.com.au\/news\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\">Energy for the People<\/a> has found that microgrids will be cost effective before 2020. Coupled with breakthroughs in battery storage technology, the strengthening position of solar microgrids in our future energy market is one that is being taken very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Already solar microgrids have been employed as a key component of the UN\u2019s Millennium Development Goals, with the aim of empowering (literally) local communities with technology for a fast and reliable source of energy. As well as training and equipment, aid recipients receive cost effective technologies such as solar panels, generators that set up communities as virtual solar microgrids.<\/p>\n<p>Microgrids then have proved that they are highly suited to smaller communities where the cost of running energy infrastructure such as poles and wires is prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>So what of the future? Are we to see the benefits of community solar power driven by intriguing initiatives such as solar microgrids in developed nations\u2019 energy systems? Will the increasing use of such microgrids in communities in the developing world translate to countries such as Australia?<\/p>\n<p>With the recent massive price hike from electricity and gas companies (caused by over-investment and mismanagement by the big energy companies NOT the carbon tax), solar microgrids are now more affordable in comparison, particularly in isolated communities.<\/p>\n<p>Australians have always had an independent streak, preferring to rely on their own nous and resourcefulness rather than government programs and big companies. This is shown quite clearly in the renewable energy sector where government support has been reduced to laughable levels with the fate of the RET seemingly in the hands of minor parties.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently much of Australia\u2019s solar sector growth has been driven by individual Aussies making decisions over the future of their energy. Coupled with the falling cost of battery storage, solar microgrids, particularly in rural areas, is now approaching viability.<\/p>\n<p>Recent government inaction towards renewables has convinced Aussies that only action on the individual and community level will reap rewards on implementing renewable energy, so why not consider solar microgrids?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What role will community-based solar microgrids play as Aussies look for environmental and affordable energy alternatives? First, I should explain what a microgrid actually is. It is simply a cluster of buildings, all connected together electrically, but not connected to the wider electric grid. 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