The body that runs WA's main electricity market wants the ability to remotely dump excess solar power from households to help avoid rolling power cuts.
A key part of this process was smart inverters, which would enable AEMO to"spill" excess power generated from rooftop solar panels at times when the network was coming under stress.
At the moment, households can freely export any surplus power produced from their solar panels into the grid, with state-owned power provider Synergy paying a minimum subsidy of 7.1 cents per unit. But she said it had become a significant liability for the security of the electricity system now that almost one in three homes on WA's south-west grid had solar panels.
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