Ekistica authored the final paper in ARENA and the CEFC’s Generator Operations Series, ‘Unlocking Curtailed Solar Energy on the NEM Through Storage' in November 2022.
This paper uses publicly available data to estimate the value of the renewable energy currently being lost on the NEM due to network constraints, economic curtailment and other curtailment at large scale solar farms, by calculating how much revenue a co-located battery could generate by capturing this energy and discharging during the evening peak demand period.
The analysis demonstrates several potential benefits flowing from recent amendments to the National Electricity Rules (NER). The amendments introduce the new Integrated Resource Provider (IRP) participant category, determined in December 2021 and coming into effect in June 2024, which remove some of the regulatory and commercial barriers to the colocation of solar, wind and battery storage on the NEM.
The link to the published report can be found HERE.