All things Solar (merged threads)

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Originally Posted by xexr6t

Carnarvon became a case study for the issues that distributed generation can cause for small-scale electricity grids last year, when a stop was put on new solar installations due to grid destabilisation fears–the Carnarvon grid experienced issues with localised instances of voltage rises, solar PV system fires, impacts on planning strategies for the future of the grid, electrical ‘harmonics’ resulting from solar system inverters, plus a number of other problems.

They fixed all the issues by spending 77 million dollars on a gas fired power station. A city of less than 5,000 people needed a $77,000,000 fix due to renewables. Keep telling yourself that renewables don't add cost to everyone's power bills.

yep your right a city of around 5000 had a diesel power station as back up to the renewables system and now the back up is a 77 million dollar gas fired station for the whole gascoyne region
and one solar pv fire in the 6 years from pv start to the case study in 2012
and the case study points to/recommends higher involvement of pv systems
http://apvi.org.au/wp-content/upload...Case-Study.pdf