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Protecting grid connections of large-scale renewable generation

by Gurinder Saluja and Joseph Treacy, TransGrid

New large-scale connections require cost-efficient designs, must maintain network reliability and security requirements and have a very short time to project completion. Most of the connections also require wide area special protection schemes to ensure the network is operated in a secure, reliable way while maintaining the quality of supply. The majority of Australia’s state […]

Solar PV module faults and failings

by Mike Rycroft, features editor, EE Publishers

  Modern solar PV equipment is designed for reliable operation over the full lifetime of the product. In spite of this manufacturing defects and premature failures still occur which can affect the performance of a product. Reliability and quality are designed and built in to modern solar PV equipment. Mass production techniques, although controlled, and […]