10 May 2021
The company behind plans to build 2GW of big battery capacity around Australia, including a 1,200MW project in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, has kicked off works on a major commercial project, with the establishment of an embedded solar and storage network at a major NSW shopping centre.
CEP.Energy, a company chaired by former NSW Labor premier Morris Iemma, said on Monday that it had signed up Victoria-based outfit RACV Solar as the EPC partner on a project that will install 2.62MW of solar and 4MW/10MWh of battery storage at the Narellan Town Centre in south-west Sydney.
22 February 2021
As rooftop solar continues to boom around Australia, an increasing number of households are coming up against strict limits to the amount of energy they are allowed to export to the grid, with many finding that they cannot export their solar at all.
The practice, called solar export limiting, is not a new one. Australian network service providers have been progressively introducing solar export limits for years on their grids, and say it is needed as a way of heading off voltage stability problems in areas of high rooftop PV penetration.
A rooftop solar system’s grid export limit is determined by the local electricity network operator – sometimes on a case-by-case basis, sometimes according to an across-the-board standard, and typically at around 5kW.