The Renewable Energy Integration Facility will develop new grid management technologies to allow better integration of renewable energy resources into electricity networks, and develop automatic fault detection techniques to help improve supply reliability and reduce blackouts.
The facility demonstrates how electricity networks will work in the future, when the electricity supply mix will include greater numbers of small power sources in conjunction with large, centralised power sources.
New design and operation techniques have the capacity to transform electricity networks by increasing electricity reliability, improving system efficiency, removing common failure points, boosting renewable energy resource integration and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
“The facility is state-of-the-art in its diversity of resources and experimental range,” CSIRO scientist David Cornforth said.
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Dr Cornforth said that the $1 million facility represents a major upgrade of CSIRO’s experimental capability in energy management, and electricity grid operation and planning.
He added that he hoped the research would eventually assist in the low-emissions electrification of developing countries.
CSIRO has already established a research collaboration with The Energy Resources Institute of India, sharing information to assist with the low-emissions electrification of rural areas in India.
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