Around Australia, records are tumbling as rooftop solar production soars to new highs. Experts say the trend is pushing the grid to its limits and highlighting the urgent need for storage.
"Traditionally, you've had the electricity system that has generated the electricity at the moment that it's used," Mr Froud said.
But Mr Froud, a general manager at state-owned West Australian power provider Synergy, said this historic limitation of energy supply was changing. Simultaneously, coal-fired power production has plumbed new lows from one side of the continent to the other. "That means in the middle of the day this storage can really absorb some of that excess solar and then release it, in particular in the early evening period when power will be really important."
"We recognise that battery storage really is going to do a lot of the heavy lifting," Mr Blaver said."We're convinced that storage at all levels of the energy system needs to … and will have greater demand for them to be connected to the system.
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