The big take home is that the 2 MWhr of storage is NOT primarily to save renewable power for later use. Less excitingly but more importantly, the storage is to allow Kalbarri to continue to function on its own as an islanded microgrid when the thin power line to Geraldton fails, noting that the line failed nearly twice a week last year as salt built up on the insulators causing shorts and pole fires.
The Kalbarri SWIS-linked microgrid may lead to more pure island microgrids but at the moment the move is to improve system reliability.
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