Australia is in the midst of an energy transformation with crucial decisions to be made for the future of our energy system. This section explores the latest issues related to building the role of renewable energy in Australia.
The Connections Reform initiative is an important project by the Clean Energy Council and the Australian Energy Market Operator to work through a range of complex issues to improve grid connection. Five priority areas have been identified and groups have been established to work through the problems and co-design solutions and implementation plans.
The rapid uptake of distributed energy resources (DER) poses technical challenges for the grid, including limited visibility of DER generation and maintaining voltage within operating parameters. There are also challenges related to issues of access and equity.
The unprecedented scale of change demands that we develop and implement new decentralised markets and a fundamentally different system architecture. This future should support and enable DER monetisation, system optimisation and system balance.
Find out more about the enormous potential of distributed energy resources in Australia.
The Distributed Energy Resources Revolution: A Roadmap for Australia's Enormous Rooftop Solar and Battery Potential
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The growth in renewables, batteries and innovative technologies will lead to a vastly different looking electricity system to the one originally designed for a small number of large close to fuel-source energy generators. This rapid growth has led to a number of reviews and market reforms to ensure these new technologies integrate into the system effectively to be cost-competitive, as well as provide system security and reliability. The Finkel Review was the first independent, seminal, wide-ranging review to consider this issue, following the South Australian ‘system black’. There have been a number of market reforms as a result of the Finkel Review as well as other processes such as market body and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reviews (e.g. system security).
NEM的传输需要转换，以便它可以支持可再生能源项目的有效开发，连接和操作。这可能需要敏捷，战略，及时和协调的新传输增强和升级方法，改进对新的能力和简化的连接流程的监管投资试验，以及技术不可知的最佳网格运营。
The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) was proposed as Australia’s future energy policy. However, the NEG was abandoned by the federal government shortly after Scott Morrison replaced Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister.
持续缺乏长期的能源政策正在影响大规模可再生能源和伴随的能量储存的投资信心，投资从2018年底跌至4500兆瓦的高度，而前两个季度中的每一个少于800兆瓦2019年。
InAustralia's clean energy investment outlook, the Clean Energy Council continues to call on the Federal Government to proceed with the NEG and make other reforms to improve the investment environment for large-scale renewable energy in Australia.
Energy security relates to how the electricity grid or 'power system' reacts to events that may influence it. It includes the grid's capability to react and recover securely to major events such as faults or generation tripping, termed contingencies.
