Technical Insights

Your solar farm has been running smoothly for five years. High-speed meters are recording gigabytes of data every month. No one's looking at it. Then AEMO calls: "We've identified an oscillatory instability event at your connection point on 16 April 2026, at 0321 NEM time. We believe your plant is not damping the oscillations and could be non-compliant with NER Cl. S5.2.5.10. You have 5 business days to provide your assessment." The scramble begins. Someone needs to access th

Received a NSP compliance notice for exceeding harmonic emissions? This is becoming more common as NSPs refocus on ensuring planning limits are maintained. The issue: measurements include background emissions from the grid itself—not just your plant. Standard practice excludes background emissions measured prior to commissioning (HP0). But the grid is evolving. Network changes and new inverter-based resources have changed the harmonic signature since you first connected... p

The Iberian grid took 27 seconds to collapse last April. Some generators disconnected before voltage thresholds were even breached. We're deploying technology faster than we can learn from it. Generator behaviour is now software-defined—changeable via a firmware update—yet verification of actual performance during real grid stress remains limited. The gap between planning assumptions and operational reality keeps widening. And we're all acting surprised when the next disturba