The future of energy generation and storage

[mullokintyre]

As the towers are down maybe they can't get the power from the solar farm to the town.

In the article, it says that they have just got an agreement to charge the battery system from the towns rooftop solar, so there is obviously an existing connection.
Also, the towers that were destroyed are closer to port Augusta than Broken Hill, so the transmission should not have been a problem unless the lines were no where near the solar farm or battery , which seems somewhat unlikely if the system was supposed to be feeding back to the Port Augusta feed.
Heres the money line.

The connection rules. I wonder who designed them, and will they now be altered to cater for the time when another emergency arrises.
Mick

 

[IFocus]

As the towers are down maybe they can't get the power from the solar farm to the town.

Technically they may need the transmission line to run the solar depending on what infrastructure has been installed.

Note that's the bits that don't make money but if just running solar then to maintain frequency, power factor, fault tolerance and stability you need stuff or connecting to an established system helps solve the issues of just solar on its own.