In Austria, more electricity was generated from renewable sources than needed in May. According to the transmission system operator Austrian Power Grid (APG), hydropower in particular contributed to the new records in electricity exports.
According to a recent broadcast, hydropower at 4,281 gigawatt-hours (GWh) contributed about 82 percent of renewable energy production, while wind power at 575 GWh was more than half of the previous year. “Thanks to the good production from renewable energy sources, an electricity surplus could be produced in Austria, so that Austria could export electricity abroad every day in May,” says APG CEO Gerhard Christiner. “That hasn’t happened once in the last three years.”
Despite the positive development, Christiner warns of the consequences of an inadequate network infrastructure. In May, the operational planning of the pumped-storage power plants had to be interrupted on 16 days because the grids were too weak to transmit the electricity.
Networks too weak
A total of 18,320 MWh of potential storage capacity was lost due to grid failures. “The best renewable energy generation is of no use if the infrastructure needed to distribute the electricity is too weak or non-existent,” emphasizes APG’s CTO.
Source: Krone
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