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Also if the homeowner is selling the property, what happens to the solar/battery output obligation contract?
Like I said interesting to see how it unfolds.
Also if the homeowner is selling the property, what happens to the solar/battery output obligation contract?As with all this, first step on the financial side is to separate cost saving from cost shifting.
To the extent it saves real, actual costs that's very different from simply avoiding payment of an unchanged cost.
Without having seen the maths behind this one, I'll observe that rather a lot of what's going on is the latter. "Saving" costs by getting someone else to pay them rather than by actually saving that cost - that's why retail electricity prices keep going up.
This is becoming a problem with the renewable rollout, the farmers have an issue with transmission lines, the Feds have a problem with the location of the wind farm, the environmentalists have issues with dams, the Marinus link has been downsized to one cable.The Federal Government has blocked the Victorian Government the offshore windmill program to be located on wetlands due to extensive environmental damage.
To be precise they've blocked the port they planned to use as a base not the actual wind farm.The Federal Government has blocked the Victorian Government the offshore windmill program to be located on wetlands due to extensive environmental damage.
Thanks Smurf, especially the location link.To be precise they've blocked the port they planned to use as a base not the actual wind farm.
It's near the existing Esso crude oil tanks and fractionation plant, the separate BlueScope steel plant, and not far from the now mostly demolished former BP oil refinery.
Location is here: https://www.google.com/maps/@-38.2824817,145.219357,9604m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu
AGL ran into the same problem when they proposed using the BP site to import LNG, rejected on environmental grounds.
For the wind farm, the idea of doing it from Tasmania has been considered as one alternative. That is, build the wind farm as planned offshore in Victoria but put all the land based stuff at Bell Bay, Tas. So build and assemble everything there, base the maintenance there, etc but the actual wind farm will be off the coast of Victoria. Needless to say that's not a particularly cheap way to do it....
I'll emphasise that's the location they planned for the land based port, assembly, workshops etc.Thanks Smurf, especially the location link.
Interesting article we have touched on it before, thought provoking.
Gigantic solar farms of the future might impact how much solar power can be generated on the other side of the world
Solar farms that span whole countries could change the climate – new study.theconversation.com
As with all this, first step on the financial side is to separate cost saving from cost shifting.
To the extent it saves real, actual costs that's very different from simply avoiding payment of an unchanged cost.
Without having seen the maths behind this one, I'll observe that rather a lot of what's going on is the latter. "Saving" costs by getting someone else to pay them rather than by actually saving that cost - that's why retail electricity prices keep going up.
“If we had a national plan with national targets and national funding and national coordination, then we wouldn’t have had this problem with the port,” D’Ambrosio said on Wednesday.
The big problem now is tic tock.How true.
It may not be perfect but it's better than all the random thoughts floating around.
There's far less time than that if we want to keep the lights on and avoid price shocks to consumers.Australia has just 71 months left to start transforming its energy system, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen warns
Yes we are getting really close to the you talked the talk, when are you going to walk the walk.There's far less time than that if we want to keep the lights on and avoid price shocks to consumers.
Far less time.
After 12 years I'm upgrading my 1.6kW system, on the unit in Mandurah, going up to 6.6kW due to panel efficiency increases, interesting I have to install an export limiting device.There's far less time than that if we want to keep the lights on and avoid price shocks to consumers.
Far less time.
What you don't want is the situation that actually exists in SA.They are obviously trying to get ahead of the curve, with regard multiple units, some with older inverters could be in an interesting position
Yes that's one of the reasons I'm upgrading, the strata will no doubt have an issue with excess generation, also excess draw if a few people get EV's.What you don't want is the situation that actually exists in SA.
It was left too late and the workaround is simply to crank up the distribution voltage until sufficient solar generation trips off.
Needless to say, intentionally sending overvoltage into every home and small business isn't ideal and brings about "the law of unintended consequences" one of which is reports that as well as shutting down solar, it also shuts down at least some EV chargers. That's not a good outcome obviously, cutting load is the opposite of what's required.
Remotely curtailing inverters via commanding them to do so is theoretically a far nicer way but not without problems as well with the implementation. It's all well and good until someone who's lost grid supply completely, and has an inverter with battery operating in backup mode as an islanded power system, has it remotely shut down. Since the loss of power means the house also loses internet, there's no way to send it a command to restart it.
Consumers who've got $10k+ systems providing backup power, and who've had that system disabled during an actual power failure, tend to get extremely angry....
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