What the US can Learn from Australia with Renewables [Special Content]
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Achieving net zero emissions requires collaboration from a multitude of government organizations and businesses.
For a country the size of Australia, 24% of electricity coming from renewables is a huge accomplishment. But it does not come easy. Australia has two large interconnected energy networks, the National Electricity Market along the East Coast, with demand of 30-35 GW, and the Western Australia Electricity Market, with demand between 2-3 GW. Both networks are receiving a huge update of distributed solar which means the amount of energy generated by renewables is constantly increasing.
Hitachi Energy, a longtime partner of The Energy Gang has played an integral role in helping Australia to achieve this, and on today’s episode, Ed Crooks is joined by two key representatives from Hitachi Energy, to discuss their work in Australia and examine some of the lessons that other countries can learn from Australia’s experience.
Juergen Zimmerman is Business Development and Technology Manager for Hitachi Energy, based in Darwin, Australia.
John Glassmire is Senior Advisor for Grid Edge Solutions, also at Hitachi Energy and based in Seattle.
This episode was produced in collaboration with Hitachi Energy. Hitachi is helping to accelerate the energy transition by developing digital and energy platforms, helping customers to overcome the complexity and capacity challenges required to transition towards a carbon-neutral energy system.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Energy Gang. I'm Ed Crux. |
| 0:12.3 | The governments of the world say they want to reach net zero emissions, mostly by the |
| 0:16.1 | end of the century. About 88% of global emissions are produced by countries that have made |
| 0:21.2 | one of those net zero commitments. But achieving those objectives is a huge challenge that |
| 0:26.2 | will require rarely seen levels of cooperation between governments and businesses. Australia |
| 0:31.6 | is one of the countries that has made more progress than many towards achieving that objective. |
| 0:35.8 | It now gets about 24% of its power from renewables, which is an impressive feat. But it hasn't |
| 0:40.7 | been easy. |
| 0:42.1 | Hitachi Energy, a long time partner at The Energy Gang, has played an integral role in helping |
| 0:46.0 | Australia to achieve that number. On today's episode, we're joined by two key representatives |
| 0:51.1 | from Hitachi Energy to discuss what they've been doing in Australia and some of the lessons |
| 0:54.9 | that other countries can learn from Australia's experience. I'm very pleased to welcome to |
| 0:59.2 | the show Yogan Zemoman, who is a business development and technology manager at Hitachi Energy |
| 1:03.2 | based in Australia. Hello Yogan, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:06.4 | Hello Ed, great to be with you. |
| 1:08.1 | And also I'm a John Glassmire, who's a senior advisor for Green Edge Solutions. Also at |
| 1:12.0 | Hitachi Energy. Hello, John. |
| 1:14.0 | Hi, pleased to be here. Thank you very much indeed, both for joining us. Before we get |
| 1:18.8 | started and really get into the meat of our discussion about Australia and what you've |
| 1:23.0 | been doing there. Can you maybe tell me a little bit about yourselves, about your backgrounds, |
| 1:26.6 | how you got into the clean energy business? Yogan, maybe start with you. What path brought |
| 1:30.8 | you to Hitachi Energy in the role you've got at the moment? |
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