New Brain Trust To Accelerate The New Energy Transition

'Astounding effort': Global power networks link to boost renewables and halve emissions; New consortium hopes to sweep away technical barriers to wind and solar integration

Andrew Lee, 20 October 2020 (RECHARGE)

More than 30 of the world’s biggest power system operators will join forces in a bid to sweep away the technical barriers to getting more renewables onto electricity networks, with an aim to help drive down emissions by 50% in ten years…The Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST) plans to ease the path for new technologies in power electronics and digitalisation, in what one group member called an “astounding” scale of collaboration and ambition…Outdated and under-invested power systems are emerging as a major focus of concern as the amount of variable renewable energy increases on networks around the world…

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…G-PST plans to “dramatically accelerate the transition to low emission and low cost, secure, and reliable power systems, contributing to >50% emission reductions of all pollutants globally over the next 10 years, by enabling the efficient integration of substantial clean energy investments into power systems”…Digitalisation, machine learning and other advanced technologies will all need to play a part in the transformation…” click here for more

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