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wiredInUSA - May 2016
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Australia’s first mini-grid trial has been
launched in the Melbourne suburb of
Mooroolbark. Fourteen homes with
residential solar systems and batteries
will generate, store and share renewable
electricity with each other as a mini-grid
using their local power lines.
AusNet Services MD Nino Ficca
described it as “an exciting trial” and
thanked the residents for their willingness
to participate. “We’re now installing the
solar systems, batteries and associated
communication equipment,” Mr Ficca
said.
Over the next 12 months, AusNet
Services will focus on monitoring
consumption levels and behaviors for
each participating household so that
individual houses can be disconnected
from the electricity grid, operating
solely on the solar energy generated
and stored in their batteries.
AusNet Services ran a three-year battery
storage trial to examine how residential
batteries can export electricity into the
grid to support the network during peak
demand times, or during unplanned
outages.
Mini-grid on trial
Transworld Associates (TWA) a Pakistan
Internet and international connectivity
provider, has contracted with Huawei
Marine to upgrade its TW1 submarine
cable system.
Commissioned in 2006, the 1,300km
TW1 submarine cable system connects
Pakistan, UAE and Oman. The 100G
upgrade will combine submarine
and terrestrial systems into a unified
network by utilizing Huawei’s WDM/OTN
product OSN 8800/9800. The upgrade
is planned to increase the operational
and management capabilities of the
TW1 system, while substantially lowering
operating costs. Huawei’s OSN 8800/9800
platform
and
100G
transmission
technology will multiply the original
system design capacity by six.
“The 100G upgrade will increase system
capacity to meet the expectations for
high quality international connectivity
services for our customers,” said Kamran
Malik, president of TWA. “The flexible
upgrade solution delivered by Huawei
Marine will provide options for us to
upgrade to 400Gb or 1Tb in the future,
which will allow greater flexibility while
enabling us to maintain our quality and
reliability commitments to customers.”
Subsea upgrade