Microgrids – the DNA of electricity

Solar and microgrids: Supplying electricity to the vast open spaces of the Australian outback cost effectively and with high levels of energy security is no easy task. Frank Tudor heads up the state-owned utility with that unenviable job in the sundrenched state of Western Australia, and his vision for doing so into the future is drawing inspiration from unlikely quarters. With an eye to the New York REV process and the rapidly falling cost of renewables including solar PV and battery storage, Tudor is transforming the way Horizon does business and chipping away at energy subsidies provided to Australians living in rural and remote locations.