The Effect of Increasing the Number of Wind Turbine Generators on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Australian National Electricity Market from 2014 to 2025

The Effect of Increasing the Number of Wind Turbine Generators on Generator Energy in the Australian National Electricity Market from 2014 to 2025

“…We used simulations from the Australian National Electricity Market (ANEM) Model (Wild et al 2015) to perform the sensitivity analysis. This reports builds on insights gained in the other project reports on carbon dioxide emissions, transmission congestion and wholesale spot prices (Bell et al 2015a(Bell et al , 2015b(Bell et al , 2015c. These reports also use the ANEM model and the five wind power penetration Scenarios A to E. Table 19 compares the percentage decrease in carbon dioxide emissions and energy generated from Scenario A to Scenario E that is with increasing penetration of wind power.…”

“…The structure of this report parallels the project's carbon dioxide emissions report (Bell et al 2015a) to allow easy comparison. For the most part, carbon emissions parallel the energy generation but the report highlights the more interesting aspects where the rates of decrease in emissions and energy generation differ.…”

“…The NEM's emissions and energy follow a similar pattern. However, the overall percentage decrease in energy is 16.3% compared to the percentage decrease in emissions 13.1% (Bell et al 2015a, sec. 3.2.1).…”

“…The wind penetration effect is also the largest of the three effects for transmission line congestion, wholesale spot prices and carbon dioxide emissions (Bell et al 2015a(Bell et al , 2015b(Bell et al , 2015c. Table 5 show the average hourly generator energy excluding wind power by State for the baseline years 2010 to 2012.…”

NEMLink: Augmenting the Australian National Electricity Market Transmission Grid to Facilitate Increased Wind Turbine Generation and Its Effect on Transmission Congestion

“…We identified constraints in the national electricity market (NEM) transmission grid affecting the beneficial deployment of wind turbine generation to reduce both wholesale spot prices and carbon dioxide emissions (Bell et al 2015a(Bell et al , 2015b(Bell et al , 2015c(Bell et al , 2015d. The higher penetration of wind turbine generation required to address climate change and reduce wholesale spot prices will require either energy storage or augmenting the NEM's transmission grid to overcome the limitations of grid that was primarily built to accommodate supply from a coal generation fleet.…”