diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md index 5f420edd0..fbf01de8b 100644 --- a/Changelog.md +++ b/Changelog.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ ### AREMI Changelog #### In the next version +* Added the new layer "Infrastructure -> Major Ports" from Geoscience Australia. * Updated the "Electricity Inf. -> Transmission -> Transmission Lines/Substations" and "Electricity Inf. -> Generation -> All Power Stations" layers to use the new updated Geoscience Australia services. * Updated the "Infrastructure -> Gas/Oil Pipelines" layers to use the new updated Geoscience Australia services, and added WFS download URLs. * Removed the "Benchmarks" and "Horizontal Control Points" from the "Topography -> Elevation" category as these have been decommissioned by the data custodian. diff --git a/datasources/aremi/custodian/Geoscience_Australia/Major_Ports.ejs b/datasources/aremi/custodian/Geoscience_Australia/Major_Ports.ejs new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5e94ca115 --- /dev/null +++ b/datasources/aremi/custodian/Geoscience_Australia/Major_Ports.ejs @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "name": "Major Ports", + "layers": "National_Major_Ports", + "url": "http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/services/Maritime_Facilities/MapServer/WMSServer", + "type": "wms", + "opacity": "1.0", + "dataUrl": "http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/services/Maritime_Facilities/MapServer/WFSServer?service=WFS&version=1.1.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=National_Major_Ports&srsName=EPSG%3A4326&maxFeatures=100000", + "dataUrlType": "wfs-complete", + <%- include ../../common/standard_properties %>, + <%- include ../../common/home_camera_rectangle %>, +} diff --git a/datasources/aremi/root.ejs b/datasources/aremi/root.ejs index 5e7fd737f..ae17f9d2e 100644 --- a/datasources/aremi/root.ejs +++ b/datasources/aremi/root.ejs @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ "type": "group", "items": [ <% include custodian/Geoscience_Australia/Infrastructure_layers %>, + <% include custodian/Geoscience_Australia/Major_Ports %>, <% include custodian/Geoscience_Australia/Pipelines %>, { "name": "Communications", diff --git a/wwwroot/init/aremi.json b/wwwroot/init/aremi.json index 223690eff..5400fdde4 100644 --- a/wwwroot/init/aremi.json +++ b/wwwroot/init/aremi.json @@ -1 +1 @@ -{"corsDomains":["services.aremi.nicta.com.au"],"homeCamera":{"west":112,"south":-48,"east":155,"north":-5},"services":[],"catalog":[{"name":"Electricity Infrastructure","type":"group","preserveOrder":true,"items":[{"name":"Generation","type":"group","preserveOrder":true,"items":[{"name":"Current Power Generation - NEM","type":"group","preserveOrder":true,"items":[{"name":"All generation types","url":"http://services.aremi.nicta.com.au/aemo/v3/csv/all","type":"csv","cacheDuration":"5m","featureInfoTemplate":{"name":"{{DUID}} - {{Station Name}}: {{Current % of Max Cap}}%","template":"
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This map allows the user to see the progression of load growth relative to distribution zone substation capacity over time, and understand areas of emerging capacity-related constraint. Note that capacity constraints may exist at upstream or downstream of the zone substation and as such this map provides an indicative ‘slice’ of the capacity situation through one level of the network. Also note that these images show available capacity before network or non-network options are taken to alleviate constraints, and before load transfer capability between adjacent zones has been taken into account.
This map does NOT show:
The green and yellow colours indicate a period when zones that have sufficient spare capacity (available capacity is around or above zero), while the orange and red colours (where available capacity is below zero) indicate periods where zones facing capacity-related constraints where investment will be needed to ensure reliability is maintained.
Polygons shown are approximate Zone Substation service regions. Clicking on a specific region will reveal the details of that location and time period, including the season of constraint and the exact available capacity value for each year.
When the user clicks on the distribution zone substation region, a range of additional information is shown in a pop up information box. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.availcap","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]},{"name":"Proposed Investment","url":"datasets/dance2/PropInv.czml","legendUrl":"datasets/dance2/PropInv.png","type":"czml","info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"This layer shows the location of network investment currently planned to occur over the period 2016 to 2025. Depending on the Network Service Provider, this generally includes augmentation investment, but may also include the following investment categories: replacement/refurbishment connections, other capital investment, and major opex. Where a project investment is committed, figures shown in the table do not reflect the reduction in risk due to committed project.
The size of the circle at a given location reflects the magnitude of the investment, and the colour reflects the timing of the investment. Red circles indicate investments that may already be committed, while green circles represent investments planned to occur closer to 2025.
Selecting a circle reveals information on the value and cause of the network investment, and how much of the investment is potentially deferrable. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.PropInv","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]},{"name":"Annual Deferral Value","url":"datasets/dance2/ADV_det.czml","legendUrl":"datasets/dance2/ADV_det.png","type":"czml","info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"Taking into account the planned investments that are potentially deferrable – noting that many replacement investments are not nominated as deferrable – and the amount of network support (in MVA) from demand management or renewable energy required in a given year to achieve a successful deferral, Annual Deferral Value (expressed in $/kVA/year) is calculated.
Annual Deferral Value shows the effective cost of addressing upcoming network constraints through the preferred network solution. This annual value can be thought of as an upper bound to the amount that the network could invest in equivalent non-network options (such as demand management or distributed generation) to alleviate a constraint for that year. If less than this upper bound is spent addressing the constraint using non-network options, then overall the cost to network service providers and consumers is lower.
Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Areas in white are those with no deferral value. Areas in light yellow and brown are those with limited deferral value where very low cost demand management options may be viable. Annual deferral value increases strongly in the red to purple areas (>$400/kVA/yr).
Annual deferral value is calculated by determining the annualised value of deferring the network solution (avoided depreciation and interest paid on capital), and dividing this by the amount of network support (in kVA) that would be required in that year to achieve the deferral. Note that while the $/kVA/yr figure shown is a marginal value (i.e. for each kVA of capacity supplied), a whole year’s the demand growth is generally required in network support to enable a successful deferral to be achieved. That is, a sufficiently large quantum of network support is required.
From the investment year onwards the ADV shrinks if load growth is forecast to continue, as the amount of support required continues to increase, but the annualised value of depreciation and cost of capital remain unchanged. As such, the most lucrative time to invest in demand management tends to be the year of proposed investment.
When the user clicks on the distribution feeder region, a range of additional information is shown in a pop up information box. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.ADV_det","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]},{"name":"Peak Day Available Capacity","url":"datasets/dance2/Avail_Cap_Hourly.czml","legendUrl":"datasets/dance2/Availcap_Hourly.png","type":"czml","info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"Augmentation investments in the network are undertaken to avoid peak demand reaching the capacity of network infrastructure. However, the peak demand of a network asset generally occurs only a few hours a year and hence it is useful to show the timing and magnitude of the constrained hours on the peak day.
This map layer shows the available capacity (as a % of asset capacity) for each hour of the peak day in the lowest level of the network each area with potentially deferrable investment. That is, if the zone substation has deferrable value then the zone exceedance situation is mapped, while if the only deferrable value is at the transmission level, the transmission exceedance situation is mapped.
A value > 0% represents spare capacity, while a value < 0% represents an exceedance.
Note that the critical season (summer or winter) and year of investment (2016-2025) is different for each constraint area. As such, the peak day data mapped for each area is for the planned investment year* and the relevant peak season. This means that winter peaking zones may be more likely to show exceedance early and late in the day, and summer peaking zones to show value during the middle of the day and afternoon.
In the additional information (when a polygon is clicked), the exact exceedance values are shown both in MVA and MWh.
* If the first year that support is required is after the investment year, then the exceedance for this year is mapped.
When the user clicks on the distribution feeder region, a range of additional information is shown in a pop up information box. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
NOTE:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.Avail_Cap_Hourly","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]}]}]},{"name":"Renewable Energy","type":"group","preserveOrder":true,"items":[{"name":"Solar","type":"group","items":[{"name":"Monthly climatology of daily exposure - Global Horizontal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/monClim_gloHorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Monthly climatology of daily exposure - Direct Normal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/monClim_dirNorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Annual climatology of daily exposure - Global Horizontal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/annClim_gloHorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Annual climatology of daily exposure - Direct Normal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/annClim_dirNorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Solar Station Historical Observations","type":"csv","url":"datasets/SolarStationHistoricalObservations/SolarStations.csv","tableStyle":{"dataVariable":"Years of data"},"info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"The Solar Station Historical Observation (SSHO) data layer is a derivative created by AREMI and based on the Bureau of Meteorology One Minute Solar data (described in detail under Source Data below). The One Minute Solar data was processed using the aremi-tmy tool, due to be Open Sourced soon at the following URL:
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The aremi-tmy tool will be used to generate Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data. As part of the processing an intermediate output is the SSHO data. The SSHO was generated by placing the Bureau One Minute Solar data values into hourly buckets, and calculating the arithmetic mean per hour. Any data gaps of less than 5 hours were linearly interpolated (by individual field, e.g. missing temperature data is treated independently from other fields which may or may not also be missing). Following the 5 hour interpolation, gaps of 24 hours or less are filled by using data from the same time in the previous or next day. Gaps larger than this were ignored and are therefore still present in the SSHO. As a result of this processing, this is a more complete dataset compared to the One Minute Solar data, but with less resolution.
The SSHO data available here was processed using the aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0 tool from the source Bureau One Minute Solar data. Start dates for the Bureau's One Minute Solar data and the period over which stations have made solar observations vary significantly. The first sites began recording solar data in 1993, while the most recently opened sites commenced in 2012. Some stations are now closed. The number of years of data recorded can be accessed by clicking on the station to display the site data."},{"name":"Source Data","content":"The Bureau One Minute Solar data includes a range of solar statistics, including global, diffuse, direct and terrestrial irradiance and sunshine-seconds.
One Minute Solar data is not based on a real-time product. Data is processed by the Bureau of Meteorology nominally at one to two monthly intervals.
The Bureau of Meteorology has been measuring a range of solar parameters for several decades. The development of a new high quality observation system, which first became operational in 1993, has facilitated the measurement of one minute solar statistics. Data have been recorded at 29 locations, however not all stations have this data visualisation, nor data for the entire period since 1993.
The Bureau of Meteorology does not endorse the derivative data or visualisations available on the AREMI website.
Detailed information about the One Minute Solar data, including a list of the observation stations, is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/about-IDCJAC0022.shtml
Should AREMI users want to source the raw One Minute Solar data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
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As the aremi-tmy tool develops, the source data may be re-processed using newer versions. The current data available on AREMI was processed using aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0.
Should AREMI users want to source the raw data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml
Alternatively, data can be freely downloaded per month, per station, by registering here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/solar_user_reg.shtml
The Bureau of Meteorology offers users the option to subscribe to an RSS feed for notifications on the One Minute Solar data updates."},{"name":"Data Custodian","content":"The Bureau of Meteorology is the data custodian of the source One Minute Solar Observations data.
The Bureau of Meteorology provides Australians with environmental intelligence for safety, sustainability, well-being and prosperity. It aims to promote informed safety, security and economic decisions by governments, industry, and the community through the provision of information, forecasts, services and research relating to weather, climate and water."},{"name":"Licensing, Terms & Conditions","content":"The visualisation of One Minute Solar Observations data on the AREMI platform is attributed to the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology.
The Bureau of Meteorology grants NICTA a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to make the SSHO data (derived from the Bureau of meteorology One minute solar observation data) available on the AREMI platform.
If visitors of the AREMI website are interested in sourcing the one minute solar observation source data from which the SSHO data is derived, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology directly via:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/data-requests.shtml
Below is an extract from ‘Bureau Access Agreement Covering External Party Usage of Bureau Information’ – Access Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology (the “Bureau”) and the User (NICTA).
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This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
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This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
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Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
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The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
![Stakeholder logo](datasets/dance/logo_2.png)"},{"name":"Licensing, Terms & Conditions","content":"The use of the information related to ‘Breaking the solar gridlock’ project provided on the AREMI platform, is bound to the terms outlined by the authors and collaborators of the project. According to them:
UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
These maps indicate that CSP could avoid the need for network augmentation in 48 locations, or 72% of the constrained locations examined. If only locations with solar resources better than 21 MJ/m2/day DNI are included, CSP could avoid the need for augmentation at 94% of locations.
https://github.com/NICTA/aremi-tmy/
The aremi-tmy tool will be used to generate Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data. As part of the processing an intermediate output is the SSHO data. The SSHO was generated by placing the Bureau One Minute Solar data values into hourly buckets, and calculating the arithmetic mean per hour. Any data gaps of less than 5 hours were linearly interpolated (by individual field, e.g. missing temperature data is treated independently from other fields which may or may not also be missing). Following the 5 hour interpolation, gaps of 24 hours or less are filled by using data from the same time in the previous or next day. Gaps larger than this were ignored and are therefore still present in the SSHO. As a result of this processing, this is a more complete dataset compared to the One Minute Solar data, but with less resolution.
The SSHO data available here was processed using the aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0 tool from the source Bureau One Minute Solar data. Start dates for the Bureau's One Minute Solar data and the period over which stations have made solar observations vary significantly. The first sites began recording solar data in 1993, while the most recently opened sites commenced in 2012. Some stations are now closed. The number of years of data recorded can be accessed by clicking on the station to display the site data."},{"name":"Source Data","content":"The Bureau One Minute Solar data includes a range of solar statistics, including global, diffuse, direct and terrestrial irradiance and sunshine-seconds.
One Minute Solar data is not based on a real-time product. Data is processed by the Bureau of Meteorology nominally at one to two monthly intervals.
The Bureau of Meteorology has been measuring a range of solar parameters for several decades. The development of a new high quality observation system, which first became operational in 1993, has facilitated the measurement of one minute solar statistics. Data have been recorded at 29 locations, however not all stations have this data visualisation, nor data for the entire period since 1993.
The Bureau of Meteorology does not endorse the derivative data or visualisations available on the AREMI website.
Detailed information about the One Minute Solar data, including a list of the observation stations, is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/about-IDCJAC0022.shtml
Should AREMI users want to source the raw One Minute Solar data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the SSHO data to incorporate more recent One Minute Solar source data are currently planned.
As the aremi-tmy tool develops, the source data may be re-processed using newer versions. The current data available on AREMI was processed using aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0.
Should AREMI users want to source the raw data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml
Alternatively, data can be freely downloaded per month, per station, by registering here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/solar_user_reg.shtml
The Bureau of Meteorology offers users the option to subscribe to an RSS feed for notifications on the One Minute Solar data updates."},{"name":"Data Custodian","content":"The Bureau of Meteorology is the data custodian of the source One Minute Solar Observations data.
The Bureau of Meteorology provides Australians with environmental intelligence for safety, sustainability, well-being and prosperity. It aims to promote informed safety, security and economic decisions by governments, industry, and the community through the provision of information, forecasts, services and research relating to weather, climate and water."},{"name":"Licensing, Terms & Conditions","content":"The visualisation of One Minute Solar Observations data on the AREMI platform is attributed to the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology.
The Bureau of Meteorology grants NICTA a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to make the SSHO data (derived from the Bureau of meteorology One minute solar observation data) available on the AREMI platform.
If visitors of the AREMI website are interested in sourcing the one minute solar observation source data from which the SSHO data is derived, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology directly via:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/data-requests.shtml
Below is an extract from ‘Bureau Access Agreement Covering External Party Usage of Bureau Information’ – Access Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology (the “Bureau”) and the User (NICTA).
1.1 The Bureau grants NICTA, in respect of the data and information made available by the Bureau to NICTA for AREMI project, a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to: (b) supply the Information to third parties where it is incorporated as part of a User product on the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement. 1.2 The User (i.e. NICTA) must not supply the Information to third parties as is, except as part of a User product (i.e. in this case, AREMI visualisation platform). Where a third party (i.e. AREMI user) requests access to the Information itself, the User must advise the third party to contact the Bureau for the purpose of obtaining the Information directly from the Bureau.
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This map allows the user to see the progression of load growth relative to distribution zone substation capacity over time, and understand areas of emerging capacity-related constraint. Note that capacity constraints may exist at upstream or downstream of the zone substation and as such this map provides an indicative ‘slice’ of the capacity situation through one level of the network. Also note that these images show available capacity before network or non-network options are taken to alleviate constraints, and before load transfer capability between adjacent zones has been taken into account.
This map does NOT show:
The green and yellow colours indicate a period when zones that have sufficient spare capacity (available capacity is around or above zero), while the orange and red colours (where available capacity is below zero) indicate periods where zones facing capacity-related constraints where investment will be needed to ensure reliability is maintained.
Polygons shown are approximate Zone Substation service regions. Clicking on a specific region will reveal the details of that location and time period, including the season of constraint and the exact available capacity value for each year.
When the user clicks on the distribution zone substation region, a range of additional information is shown in a pop up information box. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.availcap","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]},{"name":"Proposed Investment","url":"datasets/dance2/PropInv.czml","legendUrl":"datasets/dance2/PropInv.png","type":"czml","info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"This layer shows the location of network investment currently planned to occur over the period 2016 to 2025. Depending on the Network Service Provider, this generally includes augmentation investment, but may also include the following investment categories: replacement/refurbishment connections, other capital investment, and major opex. Where a project investment is committed, figures shown in the table do not reflect the reduction in risk due to committed project.
The size of the circle at a given location reflects the magnitude of the investment, and the colour reflects the timing of the investment. Red circles indicate investments that may already be committed, while green circles represent investments planned to occur closer to 2025.
Selecting a circle reveals information on the value and cause of the network investment, and how much of the investment is potentially deferrable. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.PropInv","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]},{"name":"Annual Deferral Value","url":"datasets/dance2/ADV_det.czml","legendUrl":"datasets/dance2/ADV_det.png","type":"czml","info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"Taking into account the planned investments that are potentially deferrable – noting that many replacement investments are not nominated as deferrable – and the amount of network support (in MVA) from demand management or renewable energy required in a given year to achieve a successful deferral, Annual Deferral Value (expressed in $/kVA/year) is calculated.
Annual Deferral Value shows the effective cost of addressing upcoming network constraints through the preferred network solution. This annual value can be thought of as an upper bound to the amount that the network could invest in equivalent non-network options (such as demand management or distributed generation) to alleviate a constraint for that year. If less than this upper bound is spent addressing the constraint using non-network options, then overall the cost to network service providers and consumers is lower.
Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Areas in white are those with no deferral value. Areas in light yellow and brown are those with limited deferral value where very low cost demand management options may be viable. Annual deferral value increases strongly in the red to purple areas (>$400/kVA/yr).
Annual deferral value is calculated by determining the annualised value of deferring the network solution (avoided depreciation and interest paid on capital), and dividing this by the amount of network support (in kVA) that would be required in that year to achieve the deferral. Note that while the $/kVA/yr figure shown is a marginal value (i.e. for each kVA of capacity supplied), a whole year’s the demand growth is generally required in network support to enable a successful deferral to be achieved. That is, a sufficiently large quantum of network support is required.
From the investment year onwards the ADV shrinks if load growth is forecast to continue, as the amount of support required continues to increase, but the annualised value of depreciation and cost of capital remain unchanged. As such, the most lucrative time to invest in demand management tends to be the year of proposed investment.
When the user clicks on the distribution feeder region, a range of additional information is shown in a pop up information box. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.ADV_det","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]},{"name":"Peak Day Available Capacity","url":"datasets/dance2/Avail_Cap_Hourly.czml","legendUrl":"datasets/dance2/Availcap_Hourly.png","type":"czml","info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"Augmentation investments in the network are undertaken to avoid peak demand reaching the capacity of network infrastructure. However, the peak demand of a network asset generally occurs only a few hours a year and hence it is useful to show the timing and magnitude of the constrained hours on the peak day.
This map layer shows the available capacity (as a % of asset capacity) for each hour of the peak day in the lowest level of the network each area with potentially deferrable investment. That is, if the zone substation has deferrable value then the zone exceedance situation is mapped, while if the only deferrable value is at the transmission level, the transmission exceedance situation is mapped.
A value > 0% represents spare capacity, while a value < 0% represents an exceedance.
Note that the critical season (summer or winter) and year of investment (2016-2025) is different for each constraint area. As such, the peak day data mapped for each area is for the planned investment year* and the relevant peak season. This means that winter peaking zones may be more likely to show exceedance early and late in the day, and summer peaking zones to show value during the middle of the day and afternoon.
In the additional information (when a polygon is clicked), the exact exceedance values are shown both in MVA and MWh.
* If the first year that support is required is after the investment year, then the exceedance for this year is mapped.
When the user clicks on the distribution feeder region, a range of additional information is shown in a pop up information box. An explanation of the additional information is given below:
NOTE:
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016."},{"name":"Full Legal Disclaimer","content":"UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex."},{"name":"Data Currency and Updates","content":"For distribution providers, data is current to 2014 Distribution Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Ergon Energy (September 2015), Energex (September 2015) and Endeavour Energy (September 2015). For transmission providers, data is current to June 2015 Transmission Annual Planning Reports with the following exceptions: Electranet (May 2015).
From 2016 onwards, this data will be updated annually in June."},{"name":"Data Supplier and Custodian","content":"The data was supplied by Network Service Providers. The data is stored and processed into mapping outputs by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)."}],"infoSectionOrder":["Description of Data","Data Currency and Updates","Data Supplier and Custodian","Plain English Disclaimer","Full Legal Disclaimer"],"initialMessage":{"key":"initialMessage.dance2.Avail_Cap_Hourly","title":"Network Opportunities Disclaimer","content":"Plain English Disclaimer
These maps are intended to make data on electricity network planning and investment more accessible and consistent. These maps should not be used to make investment decisions, and should only be used to assist in discussions with the local Network Service Provider. You are free to use the data but do so at your own risk. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise, relating to the data. By proceeding, the user agrees and accepts the terms of the Full Legal Disclaimer shown below.
The 2015 release of these maps is a ‘sample’ version, designed to introduce Network Service Providers (data suppliers) and potential users to the tool, and obtain feedback to refine the mapping outputs. Datasets may be incomplete and figures indicative only and should NOT be relied be upon for planning purposes. The first full map iteration will be provided in mid 2016.
Full Legal Disclaimer
UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers do not make any representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the data and content of the maps or that reasonable care has or will be taken by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers in compiling preparing or updating the maps. Except to the extent not permitted by statute or any law, no liability (whether in negligence or tort, by contract or under statute or otherwise) for any error or omission is accepted by UTS, the authors and the Network Service Providers, and UTS, the authors and Network Service Providers specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person by reason of or in connection with the maps or by any purported reliance on information contained in the maps.
While due care and attention has been taken in the presentation and transformation of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, the maps are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations as to the reliability and suitability of the content of the maps for any use to which the user intends to put it, seek independent expert advice before using it or any information contained in it and initiate dialogue with the relevant Network Service Provider before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of the maps.
In particular, users should note that Annual Deferral Values are indicative estimates which are subject to change as circumstances change, options are developed and more detailed investigation is done. Annual Deferral Values are not what the Network Service Provider is willing to pay for demand management support. Refer to the Network Service Provider’s Demand Side Engagement Document for details on how they assess non-network solutions and determine payment levels.
Data supplied by Network Service Providers and other parties used in the formulation of the maps has been provided, compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely but not guaranteed to have occurred both prior to and after publication of the maps. By accessing or using the data the user agrees to irrevocably release Network Service Providers and UTS from all claims, actions, damages, judgments, losses, remedies or matters whether in tort, contract or under statute or otherwise relating to the data.
A “Network Service Provider” referred to above is a person who engages in the activity of owning, controlling or operating a transmission or distribution system in the National Electricity Market and who is registered by AEMO as a Network Service Provider under Chapter 2 of the National Electricity Rules, and includes Electranet, SA Power Networks, TasNetworks, AEMO, United Energy Distribution, Ausnet Services, Jemena, Citipower-Powercor, Transgrid, Ausgrid, Essential Energy, Endeavour Energy, Powerlink, Ergon Energy and Energex.","confirmation":true,"width":600,"height":550,"confirmText":"I Agree"},"rectangle":["134","-50","154","-8"]}]}]},{"name":"Renewable Energy","type":"group","preserveOrder":true,"items":[{"name":"Solar","type":"group","items":[{"name":"Monthly climatology of daily exposure - Global Horizontal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/monClim_gloHorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Monthly climatology of daily exposure - Direct Normal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/monClim_dirNorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Annual climatology of daily exposure - Global Horizontal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/annClim_gloHorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Annual climatology of daily exposure - Direct Normal Exposure","layers":"mean_exposure","url":"http://neii.bom.gov.au/services/solarclim/wms/data/annClim_dirNorExp1Day.nc","type":"wms","featureInfoTemplate":{"template":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}","name":"{{#value}}{{value}} MJ/m2{{/value}}"},"rectangle":["112.0","-48.0","155.0","-5.0"],"clipToRectangle":true,"ignoreUnknownTileErrors":true},{"name":"Solar Station Historical Observations","type":"csv","url":"datasets/SolarStationHistoricalObservations/SolarStations.csv","tableStyle":{"dataVariable":"Years of data"},"info":[{"name":"Description of Data","content":"The Solar Station Historical Observation (SSHO) data layer is a derivative created by AREMI and based on the Bureau of Meteorology One Minute Solar data (described in detail under Source Data below). The One Minute Solar data was processed using the aremi-tmy tool, due to be Open Sourced soon at the following URL:
https://github.com/NICTA/aremi-tmy/
The aremi-tmy tool will be used to generate Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data. As part of the processing an intermediate output is the SSHO data. The SSHO was generated by placing the Bureau One Minute Solar data values into hourly buckets, and calculating the arithmetic mean per hour. Any data gaps of less than 5 hours were linearly interpolated (by individual field, e.g. missing temperature data is treated independently from other fields which may or may not also be missing). Following the 5 hour interpolation, gaps of 24 hours or less are filled by using data from the same time in the previous or next day. Gaps larger than this were ignored and are therefore still present in the SSHO. As a result of this processing, this is a more complete dataset compared to the One Minute Solar data, but with less resolution.
The SSHO data available here was processed using the aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0 tool from the source Bureau One Minute Solar data. Start dates for the Bureau's One Minute Solar data and the period over which stations have made solar observations vary significantly. The first sites began recording solar data in 1993, while the most recently opened sites commenced in 2012. Some stations are now closed. The number of years of data recorded can be accessed by clicking on the station to display the site data."},{"name":"Source Data","content":"The Bureau One Minute Solar data includes a range of solar statistics, including global, diffuse, direct and terrestrial irradiance and sunshine-seconds.
One Minute Solar data is not based on a real-time product. Data is processed by the Bureau of Meteorology nominally at one to two monthly intervals.
The Bureau of Meteorology has been measuring a range of solar parameters for several decades. The development of a new high quality observation system, which first became operational in 1993, has facilitated the measurement of one minute solar statistics. Data have been recorded at 29 locations, however not all stations have this data visualisation, nor data for the entire period since 1993.
The Bureau of Meteorology does not endorse the derivative data or visualisations available on the AREMI website.
Detailed information about the One Minute Solar data, including a list of the observation stations, is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/about-IDCJAC0022.shtml
Should AREMI users want to source the raw One Minute Solar data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the SSHO data to incorporate more recent One Minute Solar source data are currently planned.
As the aremi-tmy tool develops, the source data may be re-processed using newer versions. The current data available on AREMI was processed using aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0.
Should AREMI users want to source the raw data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml
Alternatively, data can be freely downloaded per month, per station, by registering here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/solar_user_reg.shtml
The Bureau of Meteorology offers users the option to subscribe to an RSS feed for notifications on the One Minute Solar data updates."},{"name":"Data Custodian","content":"The Bureau of Meteorology is the data custodian of the source One Minute Solar Observations data.
The Bureau of Meteorology provides Australians with environmental intelligence for safety, sustainability, well-being and prosperity. It aims to promote informed safety, security and economic decisions by governments, industry, and the community through the provision of information, forecasts, services and research relating to weather, climate and water."},{"name":"Licensing, Terms & Conditions","content":"The visualisation of One Minute Solar Observations data on the AREMI platform is attributed to the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology.
The Bureau of Meteorology grants NICTA a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to make the SSHO data (derived from the Bureau of meteorology One minute solar observation data) available on the AREMI platform.
If visitors of the AREMI website are interested in sourcing the one minute solar observation source data from which the SSHO data is derived, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology directly via:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/data-requests.shtml
Below is an extract from ‘Bureau Access Agreement Covering External Party Usage of Bureau Information’ – Access Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology (the “Bureau”) and the User (NICTA).
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Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - summer evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
![Stakeholder logo](datasets/dance/logo_2.png)"},{"name":"Licensing, Terms & Conditions","content":"The use of the information related to ‘Breaking the solar gridlock’ project provided on the AREMI platform, is bound to the terms outlined by the authors and collaborators of the project. According to them:
UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
![Stakeholder logo](datasets/dance/logo_2.png)"},{"name":"Licensing, Terms & Conditions","content":"The use of the information related to ‘Breaking the solar gridlock’ project provided on the AREMI platform, is bound to the terms outlined by the authors and collaborators of the project. According to them:
UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter afternoon and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
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Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
These maps, spreadsheets and report can be downloaded and used under the Creative Commons licence 'Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND'. This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit attributed.
License agreement details are available at: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at: [http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
This map series shows the “Indicative Firm Capacity” (IFC) of CSP plants with different levels of thermal storage for pick period - winter evening and six storage scenarios (0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 hours).
The IFC is essentially an estimate of the probability that CSP with storage would be generating during the key summer and winter peak network constraint periods. To derive the IFC, twenty-one of the highest peak demand events for each state in each of the defined peak time periods during 2009, 2010, and 2011 were selected. It was then modelled whether CSP, with thermal storage configurations varying from 0 to 15 hours, would have been generating during the peak event. An IFC of 0.9 (red areas) indicates that for that peak period, a CSP plant with the number of hours thermal storage selected, would have been generating power during at least 90% of those peak events.
Note that coastal areas have lower values due to the weather systems that generally prevail on the coast. This is also true for tropical northern Queensland, where summers include monsoonal impacts and periods of high rainfall. In winter, Queensland sees higher IFCs because of the absence of monsoonal weather patterns. Also note that IFCs are somewhat higher the further west the plant is located (e.g. northern South Australia).
This modelling shows that IFCs in excess of 80% can be achieved in all seasons and most locations.
For more information about the project and data used for generating the maps:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/maps/map-2a-0hr.html)"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the initial project data are available at this stage."},{"name":"Custodian","content":"Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) worked in collaboration with The Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA). Assistance and advice was provided by IT Power. Network partners Ergon Energy in Queensland, Essential Energy and Transgrid in NSW, ElectraNet and SA Power Networks in South Australia, and SP AusNet and Powercor in Victoria, also collaborated on the project and assisted with data provision.
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UTS and the authors make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or currency of the content of the report and disclaim liability for any error or omission in this report and in any associated material, and they specifically disclaim any liability for any costs, losses, claims, demands or liabilities of any kind suffered or incurred by any person acting in reliance on information contained in the report or associated materials. While due care and attention has been taken in the analysis of available data and to verify the accuracy of the material published, this report and all associated materials are not intended to be used as the basis for any investment decision. Users should make their own detailed investigations and determinations before considering any investment relating to the subject-matter of this report.
Data supplied by the network operators and other parties and used in the formulation of this report has been compiled and assessed in good faith, but may be incomplete and is subject to errors and to change over time as the network situation changes, load projections are amended and operational and technical matters affect network performance and investment. Such changes are likely to have occurred through the period of this research and prior to publication of this report. The network operators and other parties are not responsible for any analysis and conclusions drawn from data they have provided, nor for any network information presented, which is the responsibility of the authors alone.
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The project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), Ergon Energy and AUSTELA. The project’s final report was issued in 2013 and it is available at:
[http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf](http://breakingthesolargridlock.net/documents/Breakingthesolargridlock_finalv2.pdf)
The project analyses and maps potentially avoidable network investment and locations where Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can address network constraints.
This project investigated whether network support payments for installing CSP at grid constrained locations in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) could bridge the cost gap for CSP, while achieving societal savings in the costs of addressing network constraints. The project quantifies the potential economic benefits from installing CSP at grid constrained locations, and maps where CSP could provide cost-effective network support services.
The project found that CSP can offer a commercially viable alternative to traditional network augmentation solutions in addressing electricity grid constraints. The study identified $0.8 billion of potentially avoidable network investment, and 533 MW of cost effective CSP which could be installed at grid constrained locations in the next 10 years. This would reduce greenhouse emissions by 1.9 million tonnes per year.
These maps indicate that CSP could avoid the need for network augmentation in 48 locations, or 72% of the constrained locations examined. If only locations with solar resources better than 21 MJ/m2/day DNI are included, CSP could avoid the need for augmentation at 94% of locations.
https://github.com/NICTA/aremi-tmy/
The aremi-tmy tool will be used to generate Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data. As part of the processing an intermediate output is the SSHO data. The SSHO was generated by placing the Bureau One Minute Solar data values into hourly buckets, and calculating the arithmetic mean per hour. Any data gaps of less than 5 hours were linearly interpolated (by individual field, e.g. missing temperature data is treated independently from other fields which may or may not also be missing). Following the 5 hour interpolation, gaps of 24 hours or less are filled by using data from the same time in the previous or next day. Gaps larger than this were ignored and are therefore still present in the SSHO. As a result of this processing, this is a more complete dataset compared to the One Minute Solar data, but with less resolution.
The SSHO data available here was processed using the aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0 tool from the source Bureau One Minute Solar data. Start dates for the Bureau's One Minute Solar data and the period over which stations have made solar observations vary significantly. The first sites began recording solar data in 1993, while the most recently opened sites commenced in 2012. Some stations are now closed. The number of years of data recorded can be accessed by clicking on the station to display the site data."},{"name":"Source Data","content":"The Bureau One Minute Solar data includes a range of solar statistics, including global, diffuse, direct and terrestrial irradiance and sunshine-seconds.
One Minute Solar data is not based on a real-time product. Data is processed by the Bureau of Meteorology nominally at one to two monthly intervals.
The Bureau of Meteorology has been measuring a range of solar parameters for several decades. The development of a new high quality observation system, which first became operational in 1993, has facilitated the measurement of one minute solar statistics. Data have been recorded at 29 locations, however not all stations have this data visualisation, nor data for the entire period since 1993.
The Bureau of Meteorology does not endorse the derivative data or visualisations available on the AREMI website.
Detailed information about the One Minute Solar data, including a list of the observation stations, is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/about-IDCJAC0022.shtml
Should AREMI users want to source the raw One Minute Solar data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml"},{"name":"Updates","content":"No updates to the SSHO data to incorporate more recent One Minute Solar source data are currently planned.
As the aremi-tmy tool develops, the source data may be re-processed using newer versions. The current data available on AREMI was processed using aremi-tmy version 0.1.1.0.
Should AREMI users want to source the raw data with the latest updates, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology – Climate Information Services:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/
A list of charges is available here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/charges.shtml
Alternatively, data can be freely downloaded per month, per station, by registering here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/oneminsolar/solar_user_reg.shtml
The Bureau of Meteorology offers users the option to subscribe to an RSS feed for notifications on the One Minute Solar data updates."},{"name":"Data Custodian","content":"The Bureau of Meteorology is the data custodian of the source One Minute Solar Observations data.
The Bureau of Meteorology provides Australians with environmental intelligence for safety, sustainability, well-being and prosperity. It aims to promote informed safety, security and economic decisions by governments, industry, and the community through the provision of information, forecasts, services and research relating to weather, climate and water."},{"name":"Licensing, Terms & Conditions","content":"The visualisation of One Minute Solar Observations data on the AREMI platform is attributed to the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology.
The Bureau of Meteorology grants NICTA a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to make the SSHO data (derived from the Bureau of meteorology One minute solar observation data) available on the AREMI platform.
If visitors of the AREMI website are interested in sourcing the one minute solar observation source data from which the SSHO data is derived, they should contact the Bureau of Meteorology directly via:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/data-requests.shtml
Below is an extract from ‘Bureau Access Agreement Covering External Party Usage of Bureau Information’ – Access Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia acting through the Bureau of Meteorology (the “Bureau”) and the User (NICTA).
1.1 The Bureau grants NICTA, in respect of the data and information made available by the Bureau to NICTA for AREMI project, a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to: (b) supply the Information to third parties where it is incorporated as part of a User product on the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement. 1.2 The User (i.e. NICTA) must not supply the Information to third parties as is, except as part of a User product (i.e. in this case, AREMI visualisation platform). Where a third party (i.e. AREMI user) requests access to the Information itself, the User must advise the third party to contact the Bureau for the purpose of obtaining the Information directly from the Bureau.