Bright Thinkers Power Station

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This Bright Thinkers Power Station project will develop and construct a 1.7 MW industrial rooftop solar PV system to demonstrate the Bright Thinkers Power Station (BTPS) concept.Key resultsThe project successfully achieved its most important outcome of providing a solution to fill empty roofs of industrial development. Without the BTPS technology, the chosen site for the trial would have only had 850kW behind the meter solar PV. The BTPS system allowed for 1.7 MW, increasing the export capacity to the NEM from <10% to approximately 40%.After 12 months of operation, the project was also able to validate the BTPS Proof of Concept demonstrating that the technology works and is able to dynamically switch depending on external factors such as tenant load or external trigger signals (e.g. market price events).Additionally, the project managed to:enable the decoupling of PV system size from load constraint to roof surface constraintprovide a solution for the misalignment of interest between the landlord and tenant in the traditional scenario of the landlord owning the asset (solar PV) and the tenant using itenable the installation of large urban solar farms in areas where the Marginal Loss Factor is close to unity.

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