Solar curtailment is emerging as a new challenge to overcome as Australia dashes for rooftop solar
- Written by: Sophie Adams, Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW
ShutterstockAlmost a third of Australia’s estimated ten million households now have solar on the roof. But as the nation moving fastest to produce energy on our homes, we are also encountering teething problems, such as “curtailment” of output.
This issue will be one we have to overcome as ever more Australians install solar. Our...




















