Name: NEM: Electrifying Australia’s future
Uploaded: 2023-09-03T23:22:42.451Z
Duration: 195.82
Description: Discover the power of the National Electricity Market (NEM), the southern hemisphere's largest manmade machine, connecting millions of customers and trading billions in electricity. Join us as we explore YES Group's groundbreaking solar and storage projects within the NEM, and learn how collaborative initiatives can optimize site development for a sustainable energy future.

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The NEM or the National Electricity
Market is the largest manmade

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machine in the southern hemisphere.

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It stretches all the way from Port
Lincoln and South Australia, up to Port

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Douglas at the top of Queensland and
Tasmania to all of the Eastern states

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and it supplies around 10 million
customers with electricity through those

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poles and wires and trades around over
$10 billion of electricity every year.

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So YES Group has developed and built
over 100 ground mount solar farms,

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solar and storage projects in the NEM.

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Last year we commissioned three very
unique ones, which were pV best hybrid

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or solar and battery hybrid projects,
storing and generating electricity

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behind the same connection point.

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So distribution level development
connects solar and storage projects

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to the distribution network as
opposed to the transmission network.

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And as studies have shown, there's
quite a lot of room available on

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the distribution network, which has
been built for peak demand times.

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Meaning those very few times of the
year when the network's at capacity.

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For the rest of the time, there's a lot
of space in that network to accommodate

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new solar and storage projects.

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Probably one of the greatest challenges
at distribution level development

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is that it wasn't really built to
accommodate distributed generation.

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A lot of the sites that seem viable for
solar farms are either unavailable from

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a land use point of view, the community
and landowners don't wanna see solar

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farms too close to where they live.

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It might be too valuable.

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In other words, the land use just doesn't
stack up from developing a new project.

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Or if it is the perfect site,
quite often it can be too stringy.

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So in other words, the
network can't accommodate that

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generation at that location.

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So YES group has overcome those
challenges by carefully selecting

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the right substations and feeders to
approach that can accommodate generation.

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And carpet bombing those sites,
tipping all of the available

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sites into a big funnel and seeing
which ones come out the bottom.

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The NEM's very important for Australia's
renewable energy future because it allows

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shared resourcing around the country,
meaning we don't have to build too much

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solar and storage within each state.

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Because the sun isn't always shining.

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The wind's not always blowing.

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We can share those resources using
the NEM, the poles and the wires

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between states and within the state.

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So it's really important for
an efficiency point of view,

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for Australia's energy future.

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A key energy initiative that I'd really
like to see is networks and customers

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working together to make it more
efficient for people to develop sites.

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At the moment, developers are
quite blind as to what others might

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be doing at the same location.

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And therefore that can lead to a
waste of resources and capital.

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If networks and customers could
work together to provide shared

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information about certain parts of
the development, it could allow for a

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more efficient deployment of project
developer's capital and their time.

The NEM or the National Electricity
Market is the largest manmade

It stretches all the way from Port
Lincoln and South Australia, up to Port

Douglas at the top of Queensland and
Tasmania to all of the Eastern states

and it supplies around 10 million
customers with electricity through those

poles and wires and trades around over
$10 billion of electricity every year.

So YES Group has developed and built
over 100 ground mount solar farms,

Last year we commissioned three very
unique ones, which were pV best hybrid

or solar and battery hybrid projects,
storing and generating electricity

So distribution level development
connects solar and storage projects

to the distribution network as
opposed to the transmission network.

And as studies have shown, there's
quite a lot of room available on

the distribution network, which has
been built for peak demand times.

Meaning those very few times of the
year when the network's at capacity.

For the rest of the time, there's a lot
of space in that network to accommodate

Probably one of the greatest challenges
at distribution level development

is that it wasn't really built to
accommodate distributed generation.

A lot of the sites that seem viable for
solar farms are either unavailable from

a land use point of view, the community
and landowners don't wanna see solar

In other words, the land use just doesn't
stack up from developing a new project.

Or if it is the perfect site,
quite often it can be too stringy.

So in other words, the
network can't accommodate that

So YES group has overcome those
challenges by carefully selecting

the right substations and feeders to
approach that can accommodate generation.

And carpet bombing those sites,
tipping all of the available

sites into a big funnel and seeing
which ones come out the bottom.

The NEM's very important for Australia's
renewable energy future because it allows

shared resourcing around the country,
meaning we don't have to build too much

We can share those resources using
the NEM, the poles and the wires

So it's really important for
an efficiency point of view,

A key energy initiative that I'd really
like to see is networks and customers

working together to make it more
efficient for people to develop sites.

At the moment, developers are
quite blind as to what others might

And therefore that can lead to a
waste of resources and capital.

If networks and customers could
work together to provide shared

information about certain parts of
the development, it could allow for a

more efficient deployment of project
developer's capital and their time.

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Discover the power of the National Electricity Market (NEM), the southern hemisphere's largest manmade machine, connecting millions of customers and trading billions in electricity. Join us as we explore YES Group's groundbreaking solar and storage projects within the NEM, and learn how collaborative initiatives can optimize site development for a sustainable energy future.