Balancing Australia’s ocean of electricity

Tomorrow’s energy system doesn’t just need to be renewable, it needs to be reliable too. CSIRO says smart inverters might hold the key to safely connecting more household solar, batteries and EV chargers.

Australia is leading the world in rooftop solar adoption. By June 2025, 4.2 million rooftop solar systems had been installed nationwide, representing 26.8GW of clean power generation capacity connected directly to local electricity networks that serve homes and businesses.

This surge in solar power and other consumer energy resources (CER) is helping reduce carbon emissions, but it’s also creating new challenges for electricity grid operators where assets that burn fossil fuels to generate electricity are being replaced by cleaner sustainable sources.

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