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"The Australian Energy Market Operator has reported a near doubling in
completed wind, solar and battery projects in the last financial year to a new
record high, following a surge of completions in the latest quarter.
The data from AEMO’s latest
Connections Scorecard also reveals record levels
of activity for new projects under construction, and seeking a grid connection,
as well as a major new trend towards hybrid projects – particularly solar and
batteries – along with the rollout of grid forming inverters, crucial for
system stability in a high renewables grid.
“Record number of projects and gigawatts have been achieved across all phases
of the connections process this financial year, demonstrating the current
momentum of the energy transition,” AEMO says in the scorecard.
The accelerating in activity in the National Electricity Market – Australia’s
main grid – will be comforting for the federal government and will likely boost
its hopes of meeting the target of 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030 – or at
least having the required amount of new capacity committed and under
construction, if not already operating.
AEMO’s head of system design Merryn York says 29 projects totalling a record
4.4 gigawatts (GW) of capacity reached full output in 2024/25, with 1.5 GW
reaching full output in the June quarter alone.
This, she said, included the Wollar, Stubbo, Wunghnu, Mannum, and Kerang solar
farms, the Greenbank, Koorangie and Latrobe Valley big batteries, and the
Goyder South 1A and 1B wind farms. The data does not include Western
Australia’s separate grid or other isolated grids such as the Pilbara, Mt Isa
and the Northern Territory.
“The investment pipeline in the NEM continues to build, which is critical as
decades-old generation approaches retirement,” York said in a statement.
Even more promising is the growing pipeline of projects to come, with 37
projects totalling 9 GW achieving registration, up substantially from 2.5 GW
last year, and 60 projects totalling 15.7 GW securing application approvals.
York said this brought the the total capacity of projects in the connection
process to 260 projects totalling 53 GW, a rise of 39 per cent over the same
period last year. “Of this, 7 GW is already built and commissioning to full
output,” she said."
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