Tiny Satellites: Eyes in the Sky, Thousands of Them

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Australia is becoming a proving ground for the future of electricity markets. With renewables now supplying a large share of generation and batteries being deployed at unprecedented scale, the country is offering an early look at how power systems operate when storage becomes a c ...  Show more

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