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Western Australia utility says too much solar is causing problems

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More batteries is the answers in order to avoid them to tell you what and when to turn on or off. Or like @DeepBass9 is putting it:

Its like planting a tree. The best time to go off grid is many years ago. The second best time is today.

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My understanding from that article is that most of the domestic systems are grid tied, without battery to store electricity for later use. Which makes sense because they have, at present, a reliable power system, can resell at a reasonable price, thus getting a rebate on their bill, and because those systems are relatively cheap.

What they could also do is invest in grid scale storage, either massive batteries or pumped storage. If they have a situation like now in SA with very low solar production, they will have the opposite problem and may be forced to load shed if they have scaled back on base load generation.

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