Follow a stunning week for renewables in South Australia, Victoria had its own moment when big contributions from rooftop solar delivered a new record low in the state’s operational demand over the weekend.
According to a tweet from the Australian Energy Market Operator on Monday, Victoria on Sunday recorded an operational demand of just 2,195MW in the early afternoon – thanks largely to power generated on rooftops in the state and mild weather.
“Minimum operational demand records normally falling in spring continued into summer in Victoria,” AEMO says in the tweet.
“A new record of 2,195MW [was] set yesterday at 1pm, dropping 3.9% from the previous set in October 2022 (2,285 MW). At the time, rooftop solar contributed 55% of underlying demand.”
To put this in some perspective, this level of demand is less, even, than nameplate capacity of Victoria’s Loy Yang A coal plant, which is 2,210MW. The state’s entire brown coal fleet has a capacity of 4,690MW.
South Australia unveils project proposals totalling 13 GW of new wind and solar which it…
Australian developer snaps up portfolio of operating and developing wind and solar projects as a…
A massive 244-tonne transformer has completed a 2,165 km road trip to the site of…
The battery industry is about to witness another change in chemistry and technology. Valo Energy…
Energy minister says imminent closure of coal is "indisputable," and "ideology-driven" policies to scrap transmission…
The supplier to the biggest battery currently being built in Australia expects to announce its…