[clug] Exercise and pay the bills!

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi Bob,

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:28:05 +1100 Robert Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> btw. does anyone know how the electricity authorities "switch off"
> a segment of their 240V power line (eg. for tree-clearing or other
> maintenance) when there are all these solar-powered power feed-ins
> popping up everywhere and effectively juicing up the line? I have
> always wanted to know how they turn it all off.

They have a register of all the solar installations and go around and
turn them all off.  Sometimes they even remember to turn them back on
again :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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