General Discussions

[northernblue]

The NT was/is always a bit of a mess with solar, think an Italian conglomerate own a few of the facilities and the system up there has too many cooks in the kitchen. They wont connect those solar facilities to the grid because of storage battery issues and a fear the ageing infrastructure will fall over plus when you connect a lot of solar arrays at once you get poorer regulation which means dirty power which spikes the line up to very high voltages which kills older infrastructure so they switch those feeds off.
They will probably need to get a 3rd party Engineering Consultant company in to test and sign off on the system because thats how it usually works and they dont come cheap.
NT Government give good rebates on EV vehicles dont they?

You're certainly more knowledgeable of the tech side than me lol.
I do know a guy who is involved in the remote generation and distribution and he did say that the biggest problem with solar production was things like cloud cover, as in everything is humming along and a cloud comes over and output drops, batteries are needed to keep everything running whilst the (usually) diesel generator kicks in.
He says its not bad, it just needs to be integrated and well managed.

I'm not sure of the ev subsidy's but I believe the battery one is better than most.
Something that helps NT take up solar and battery is that many are remote, at least compared to you mob down south.
Even if theres power to the front, the acreage can still make renewables stack up well price wise.