Solar met the majority of electricity demand between 9am and 6pm in the past week as much of the country cranked air conditioners
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Australia’s power grid is changing rapidly – so rapidly that it can feel difficult to keep up.
This week, as an oppressive heatwave in the country’s south-east rewrote temperature records, there was also plenty of evidence demonstrating just how fast long-held assumptions about the electricity system are being overturned.