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"Medium-sized renewable microgrids are being held back by a lack of policy
clarity and standardised connection procedures, which are making it more
difficult for remote First Nations communities to enjoy the kind of energy
security as other Australians.
The market operator and utilities have invested heavily in standardisation to
ramp up the number of connections they can let onto the grid each year.
But these rules are still considered to be too onerous for 5-40 megawatt (MW)
projects that might provide secure power to small remote communities, says
Ekistica engineer Josiah Fajardo.
“That creates a very particular problem for community-based projects that are
on the smaller scale,” Fajardo said at the First Nations Clean Energy Symposium
last week.
“There’s just that barrier of getting through all those hurdles that we’ve put
in place for good reason to ensure that new systems won’t negatively impact the
network.
“If we were to take a similar approach for that missing middle piece… What are
the biggest levers that we could push so that they can actually connect in a
streamlined way? I think there’s opportunity there to do that.”
Fajardo says that opportunity is in creating standardised processes for smaller
projects, much as has been done for the 100 MW-plus ones, to get these projects
online."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
