1. CLEAN ENERGY COUNCIL
Tom Butler, Director - Energy Transformation
Isolated Power Systems Connect 2016
Thursday 1 December 2016

2. CLEAN ENERGY COUNCIL
 CEC is the peak body representing Australia’s renewable energy sector with the
aim of transforming Australia’s energy system into a clean energy system by
leading and supporting the growth of the clean energy industry through:
 Shaping policy
 Developing standards and regulations and ensuring the integrity of the
industry
 Promoting the industry
 Providing a range of valuable services to our members, customers and
partners
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3. IPS SCOPE
 Isolated power grids make up around
5% of Australia’s supplied energy
 Frequently located in high quality
wind and solar resource sites where
these technologies are competitive
with diesel and transport costs
Source: AECOM, Australia’s Off-Grid Clean Energy Market, 2014
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4. REMOTE GRIDS LEAD THE WAY
 Horizon Power has been innovating in
solar energy for many years
 New energy technologies are driving the
exploration of new approaches
 Many networks experimenting with
battery storage solutions both in remote
areas and on-grid
Source: Horizon Power, Powering Ahead Research Pilot, 2016
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5. INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
 Significant scope to deploy
renewable energy
 Mining and resources sector
is moving as costs come
down
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/
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6. TECHNOLOGY COSTS CHANGING
Source: CO2CRC, Australian Power Generation Technology Report, 2015
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7. STORAGE LCOE WITH SOLAR PV
Source: World Energy Council, E-storage: Shifting from cost to value report, 2016
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8. STORAGE LCOE WITH WIND
Source: World Energy Council, E-storage: Shifting from cost to value report, 2016
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9. IS THE GRID SHRINKING?
 Electricity grids could be shrinking,
increasing opportunities to deploy remote
area power grid techniques
 Increasing focus on distributed energy
resources to replace grid expansion and
replacement
 Regulatory challenges are being
revealed along the way
Source: AECOM, Australia’s Off-Grid Clean Energy Market, 2014
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10. ENERGY SECURITY
 Micro and isolated power grids can overcome
some weaknesses of large grids to extreme
weather events
 “Energy security should always be the key
priority” (Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, 29 September
2016)
 Planning for resilience has to look to
mechanisms to increase how flexible the system
is to bring it back online quickly and
independently following an outage
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11. THANK YOU
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 Tom Butler
 tbutler@cleanenergycouncil.org.au
 0431 248 097