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Solar has been installed with a huge flywheel to smooth its output in WA. The result is a town that is 60% solar powered, and a 400,000 litre reduction in annual diesel usage. Great Aussie innovation!<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019ve all seen the success of solar energy in our cities and regional towns. Australians are voting with their rooftops<\/a> for clean, green solar power and the trend is increasing as solar reaches grid parity. But what of communities in our vast Outback? What of our small remote towns currently reliant on polluting fossil fuels such as diesel? It is here that microgrids, solar energy and the Outback are coming together to create a new, cleaner energy future.<\/p>\n

In doing so, these microgrids for remote communities are giving the country a glimpse of a new way of accessing energy.<\/p>\n

A key example is the mining community of Marble Bar, a mining town in Western Australia\u2019s Pilbara, where a microgrid installed by technology group ABB<\/a> is allowing multiple sources of energy, including solar, to be used instead of the traditional reliance on diesel generators.<\/p>\n

According to the company press release released last week<\/a>, the specially constructed microgrid \u2014 which incorporates an Australian invented\u00a0 flywheel grid stabilizing technology \u2014 aims to \u201cmaximise the intake of solar power generation [while] minimising diesel fuel generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABB claim the hybrid microgrid allows almost 60 percent of the power needs of the town of Marble Bar and Nullagine to be generated through solar energy. This saves the community a massive 400,000 litres of diesel fuel annually while avoiding 1,100 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year.<\/p>\n

Microgrids — Back to the future?<\/h3>\n

Microgrids represent a return to the past for energy production where local councils or groups of small business owners ran energy production for their communities. However in a modern twist it\u2019s that most ancient of power sources \u2014 the sun \u2014 that is playing such a crucial role in pushing the microgrids towards clean energy.<\/p>\n

While recent advances in battery storage have altered the equation, going off the grid is still expensive (see Finn\u2019s article here<\/a>) and less than viable for the average Australian household. Indeed a December 2013 report What Happens When We Unplug?<\/em> predicted it will take until 2020 for off grid households to become financially viable.<\/p>\n

However running power infrastructure to remote and sparsely populated communities is a different scenario. Power companies are reluctant to run poles and wires into the vast Australian outback due to the massive costs involved, outlays that have little chance of gaining any return for the profit-driven power company. Outlying communities therefore rely heavily on diesel generators as a power source.<\/p>\n

Obviously the whole concept of \u201cthe grid\u201d is under re-evaluation. No longer should we be thinking along the lines of a monolithic grid that every household and business is plugged into and serves everyone. It appears that microgrids will play an important role in the future for our remote towns and communities.<\/p>\n

We should not just think of microgrids as just being relevant to remote communities as well. A current project by Queensland\u2019s Ergon Energy is teaming with local operators to run microgrids in areas where natural disasters such as cyclones threaten power.<\/p>\n

In a world where clean energy has begun to supplant traditional fossil fuels, how long before we see microgrids and solar energy play as much of an important component of our towns and cities’ energy systems as that of remote communities such as Marble Bar?<\/p>\n

Are microgrids, solar energy and the Outback just the beginning? Will we see solar energy microgrids replace traditional grid power? We\u2019d like to hear your thoughts on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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