You Don't Know You're Non-Complaint Until AEMO Tells You

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 the site server. Extract files from the right time window. Figure out what "oscillatory instability" even means. Find a specialist consultant who can analyse sub-synchronous oscillations.

The consultant quotes an exorbitant fee and needs three weeks to even start looking at the issue.

AEMO's deadline? Five days.

The Real Problem

Your asset is an older plant — no instability detection relay. High-speed meter data exists but sits unprocessed. There's no continuous monitoring system translating raw waveforms into compliance status.

By the time you know there's a problem, you're already in reactive mode.

The Solution: COMET

COMET connects to your existing high-speed meters, processes the data automatically every 24 hours, and alerts you only when threshold-exceeding events occur.

For each event, the platform runs an automated compliance assessment against NER Clause S5.2.5.10 — examining whether your plant's reactive power is damping the oscillation (compliant) or amplifying it (requires further investigation).

When AEMO calls, your compliance report is already prepared.

No consultant scramble. No exorbitant fees. No three-week lead time while you're facing a five-day deadline.

Proactive, Not Reactive

More importantly: COMET identifies control loop issues before they become compliance events. You engage your inverter OEM with data in hand and resolve oscillations early.

The platform doesn't just answer AEMO's questions faster — it helps you avoid the questions in the first place.

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