Grid constraints that have forced the electricity regulator to deliberately halve the output of five big solar farms in Victoria and NSW could soon be lifted if tests on the utilities succeed this week.
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| The Broken Hill solar farm has been affected by transmission constraints. Testing this week will determine whether the plant - and four others in Victoria - can resume full output to the grid. |
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) intervened last September to slash the amount of power entering the grid from the plants - which have a rated capacity of 350 megawatts - because "unprecedented technical issues" threatened its stability.
Regulators have tested the performance of individual plants - four of which are in Victoria and the other in Broken Hill - after engineers used a technical fix to smooth the energy output from the plants and make them more compatible with the grid.
Tests involving all five plants began on Monday and will continue this week to ensure grid stability can handle the resumption of their full output, according to AEMO and company officials.
Read the story from The Age by Peter Hannam - “Five big solar farms set to increase energy output after tests.”
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