How Renewable Energy Transformed the PPAs in Australia Sohail Hasnie Energypreneurs Advisory Melbourne, Australia https:// www.linkedin.com /in/ shasnie / 27 Feb 2023
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Australia’s Climate Vulnerability is felt everyday
For the average Australian, “Status Quo” is not an Option!
30,000 MW in 15 years! Highest Rooftop Capacity per Capita 30,000 MW 25 million population 1200 Watt per Capita
March 2017 April 2021
July 2019
Victoria has installed and activated Australia’s largest lithium-ion battery at the Moorabool Terminal Station (Geelong). The 300 Megawatt (MW) battery is owned and operated by Neoen . Store enough energy to power more than one million Victorian homes for 30 minutes. The Victorian Big Battery is one of the largest batteries in the world. Source: https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/renewable-energy/batteries-energy-storage-projects/victorian-big-battery
Home Batteries and Feed-in Tariff
1989, Victoria
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From Jan 2001: all customers were contestable
The Federal Government created the Small-scale Technology Certificate (STC) trading market in 2001 to encourage consumers and small businesses to install renewable energy systems. It does this by setting a requirement for big polluters to buy a certain percentage of energy each year from renewable energy sources. Source: https:// www.demandmanager.com.au /certificate-prices/
“First” PPA in Austraila
Example: Southeast Asia
Bangladesh Paradox Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the adverse impact of the climate change – Yet, Bangladesh relies almost entirely on fossil fuel (coal, oil and gas) for its energy needs
Opportunity to create labelling before it becomes mandatory
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REFERENCES
ADB Publication on Rooftop Solar PPP https://www.adb.org/publications/lighting-way-asian-development-banks-rooftop-solar-project
28 Batteries Prices are coming down and large battery projects are changing our perceptions about batteries 100-MW/400-MWh