In western Australia state government announced on October 3rd, to serve the state Power of state-owned Horizon Power company will be on the edge of the grid area 17 independent off-grid Power system installation, and demolished 64 km of transmission line. The region of the poles and wires easily because of the weather reason, wild animals and plants, agricultural machinery and the forest fire caused power outages.
the first independent systems have been installed in a hotel customers, including 10. 8 kw of solar panels, 25 KWH battery storage and a backup diesel generators. No matter what the weather, independent power supply system can be 24/7 round-the-clock power supply, and more reliable and safe.
the state's main grid Western Power network operators also plans to about 56 customers stripped from the grid, solar energy, and provide them with independent Power systems based on renewable energy. In the long run, solar portal, Western Power of the company's research shows that there are around 15000 can take off the web client, photovoltaic (pv) grid, can be dismantled for thousands of kilometers of expensive pole, solar net, can save $400 million. Of new south wales Essential Energy data show that there is a 1905 - kilometer route only 335 customers service, clear vegetation in some areas of each customer spends as much as $25000 a year.
the expert thinks, remote areas of customer cost is one of the largest cross-subsidy power sector, solar energy, they took the tens of thousands of customers from the power grid and solar and battery instead of poles and wire will greatly improve the stability of the power supply, and reduce the cost and electricity.