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Owner switches off solar farm powering area twice the size of Tasmania (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/environment@aussie.zone
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[–] [S] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've thought for a while that all solar feeders should switch off their feeds to bring power retailers to a better deal. We've reached the point where the national grids depend on residential solar, but they in-turn treat those feeds like an inconvenience.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Unfortunately I don't know how much good it'll do, OE recently added curtailment stats:

    https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed&show=curtailment_wind%2Ccurtailment_solar_utility

    So far today can see up to 6GW of wind and solar farms curtailing/turning off due to the price being negative/uneconomical

    I'm expecting to see more plans like this one:

    https://www.globirdenergy.com.au/energy-saver/zerohero/

    Essentially no feed in during the day and bonus feed in at night

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