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Grids struggle with solar splurge as records tumble – The Australian Financial Review
Fresh records for low demand for electricity from the grid have been set in four states in the past month, causing problems network owners and the market operat…
But that carve-out of demand in the middle of the day – known as the “duck curve” across grids with increasing rooftop solar – is typically followed by a surge in usage in the evening, requiring increasing flexibility from a supply system more used to stable consumption.
Already for the last several months AEMO has curbed transmission of power between South Australia and Victoria because of the risk of a simultaneous trip of rooftop solar in South Australia that could lead to a blackout.
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