Australian Scientists Collaborate With Google to Tackle Solar Power Surplus

Published on June 25, 2024

Scientists from Australia’s national science agency are collaborating with a secretive Google research and development team to address the solar surplus problem affecting the country’s power grid. On June 25, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced that it had joined with Tapestry, a team from X–the moonshot factory, a separate division of Google, to develop a new type of smart inverter that could assist Australia’s renewable energy transition. Smart inverters are devices that are commonly used in solar panel installations to help integrate solar energy into the power grid via a range of functions. At present, Australia has a renewable energy surplus problem as there is more renewable energy available than the power networks can use....

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