This project delivered an API framework which grouped real-time PV power outputs at the zone substation level to participating network operators by the middle of 2017.
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This project was first envisioned in early 2015. The work I had completed in my PhD brought together high resolution solar radiation modelling tools, analytics for rooftop solar PV power output data and some early operational code to produce real-time estimates of the power output of the 15,000+ rooftop solar systems installed across the Australian Capital Territory. These early stage developments, completed with the support of EvoEnergy (then ActewAGL Distribution), showed promise for addressing one of the key challenges for low voltage (LV) network operators under increasing levels of behind-the-meter solar PV penetrations: the lack of visibility of their past, present and future energy generation.