The changing electricity grid
There has been unprecedented change across the National Electricity Market (NEM) over the past two decades with utility scale grid renewable generation increasing a staggering 850 fold in a twenty year period.
The following animated video tells the story of this transformative change, and charts the exponential rise of utility scale solar generation in particular, which has seen a power system primarily reliant on coal, gas and hydro generation evolve into one that is driven by solar, wind and other renewable energy sources.