CLEAN ENERGY COUNCIL

Tom Butler, Director - Energy Transformation Isolated Power Systems Connect 2016 Thursday 1 December 2016

CLEAN ENERGY COUNCIL

CEC is the peak body representing Australia’s renewable energy sector with the

aim of transforming Australia’s energy system into a clean energy system by

leading and supporting the growth of the clean energy industry through:

Shaping policy

Developing standards and regulations and ensuring the integrity of the

industry

Promoting the industry

Providing a range of valuable services to our members, customers and

partners

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IPS SCOPE Isolated power grids make up around

5% of Australia’s supplied energy

Frequently located in high quality

wind and solar resource sites where

these technologies are competitive

with diesel and transport costs

Source: AECOM, Australia’s Off-Grid Clean Energy Market, 2014 7/12/2016 | 3

REMOTE GRIDS LEAD THE WAY Horizon Power has been innovating in

solar energy for many years

New energy technologies are driving the

exploration of new approaches

Many networks experimenting with

battery storage solutions both in remote

areas and on-grid

Source: Horizon Power, Powering Ahead Research Pilot, 2016 7/12/2016 | 4

INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY Significant scope to deploy

renewable energy

Mining and resources sector

is moving as costs come

down

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/ 7/12/2016 | 5

TECHNOLOGY COSTS CHANGING

Source: CO2CRC, Australian Power Generation Technology Report, 2015 7/12/2016 | 6

STORAGE LCOE WITH SOLAR PV

Source: World Energy Council, E-storage: Shifting from cost to value report, 2016 7/12/2016 | 7

STORAGE LCOE WITH WIND

Source: World Energy Council, E-storage: Shifting from cost to value report, 2016 7/12/2016 | 8

IS THE GRID SHRINKING?

Electricity grids could be shrinking,

increasing opportunities to deploy remote

area power grid techniques

Increasing focus on distributed energy

resources to replace grid expansion and

replacement

Regulatory challenges are being

revealed along the way

Source: AECOM, Australia’s Off-Grid Clean Energy Market, 2014 7/12/2016 | 9

ENERGY SECURITY

Micro and isolated power grids can overcome

some weaknesses of large grids to extreme

weather events

“Energy security should always be the key

priority” (Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, 29 September

2016)

Planning for resilience has to look to

mechanisms to increase how flexible the system

is to bring it back online quickly and

independently following an outage

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THANK YOU

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Tom Butler

tbutler@cleanenergycouncil.org.au

0431 248 097