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‘A win-win’: New rooftop solar technology could boost household earnings – Sydney Morning Herald
A trial of new technology is aiming to unblock network congestion that is stopping millions of Australians selling their surplus solar power to the grid.
Also, most rooftop panels lack technology to regulate supply into the grid and ramp output up or down in response to the network capacity, which reaches peak load in the middle of hot days.
Because those panels cannot regulate output, to avoid overload, networks have to set limits calculated by capacity on the sunniest day. That means the opportunity to take maximum power supply on cooler days is missed.
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