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Aussie Enviro@aussie.zone · 9 months ago

Owner switches off solar farm powering area twice the size of Tasmania

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Aussie Enviro@aussie.zone · 9 months ago

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The owner of a huge solar farm in outback Queensland hits the kill switch after almost a decade, saying his contract with Ergon Energy was unfair.

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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