Featured in Solar leads the European recovery – 06-2020

Collaborative digital fixes for the energy transition

Straddling two state borders, the West Murray region in southeastern Australia has become a microcosm of technical challenges that can plague the energy transition. Faced with serious curtailment of solar farms in this electrically remote region, a remarkable inverter-based technical feat may have changed the game.

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Marija Maisch

15 Jun 2020

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In September 2019, five solar farms in the West Murray Zone (WMZ) were ordered to cut back their output to 50%, highlighting an emerging challenge for renewable energy generators on Australia’s main grid: system strength. The radical curtailment was ordered after it was discovered that the combined operations of the Bannerton, Broken Hill, Gannawarra, Karadoc, …

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