Originally published on Renew Economy. The South Australian Labor government gained a lot of credit – and success – when it announced a 33 per cent renewable energy target for the state by 2020. It seemed very ambitious at the time, but it turns out that it was just a … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. South Australia could become a text-book case for the transition to a low carbon electricity grid, if the most up-to-date forecasts from the Australian Energy Market Operator are any indication. As we noted in our main story today, AEMO’s National Electricity Forecasting Report for 2014, released on Monday … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The rapid transformation of the electricity market – and the crucial role of household and commercial consumers – continue to confound the experts, including the energy market operator, which has announced yet another downgrade of its forecasts. AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) last week quietly released its … [continued]
According to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), all new electricity generation capacity in Australia will be from renewable energy. It will mostly be from wind energy, while 13% of that is expected to be from large-scale solar PV, and 3% from biomass. After years of hearing very little about … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. (Republishing of this article is not permitted without the consent of RenewEconomy.) Today’s graph of the day is a follow-up to a story nearly two weeks ago, when Ketan Joshi brought us news of how wind energy had supplied some 47 per cent of South Australia’s overall electricity … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. (Republishing of this article is not permitted without the consent of RenewEconomy.) Already, one in five houses in South Australia has rooftop solar PV, and a new AEMO document predicts this could treble by 2022. With wind already supplying 27% of power, and new wind farms … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The Australian government appears to have made a remarkable concession following the release of the 100% renewables report by the country’s energy market operator – a renewables future will be no more costly than the largely fossil fuel alternative. As we reported earlier this month, after the … [continued]
This article originally published on RenewEconomy The rapidly changing nature of Australia’s coal-fired electricity grid has been highlighted by a new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator, which reports that all new electricity generation proposals received in the last 12 months have been either for large scale wind farms … [continued]
This post originally published on RenewEconomy We were too busy on other stories yesterday to give great attention to the latest Australian Energy Market Operator analysis of the South Australian market, but some of the graph are as stunning as yesterday’s claims by AGL Energy that there is a surplus … [continued]
Editor’s note: This article will be added to our “70%, 80%, 99.9%, 100% Renewables — Study Central” page. This article originally appeared on RenewEconomy. An exploratory study into 100% renewable energy scenarios for Australia has concluded that its impact on consumer electricity prices over the next few decades may be … [continued]
