Insight - Aussie power crisis leads to more solar usage regulation

Brighter picture: Photovoltaic panels harvesting solar energy. Australians will vote with their wallets and install even more household solar and batteries in an effort to cut energy bills.

IT defies logic that one of the world’s biggest exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and coal is struggling to ensure enough domestic supplies to keep the lights on, but that is Australia’s current reality.

Widespread power blackouts have so far been avoided in the country’s National Electricity Market (NEM), which includes the heavily-populated eastern states, but not the more remote Western Australia state and the Northern Territory.