Rolling blackouts better than brown-outs in solar age?
Residential solar Inverters are required to have very strict standards to sense what is safe online… and disable themselves when the sensed grid power is wrong.
This is usually a very good thing as it keep the grid healthy, safe, etc.
Except when the grid operator decides to drop voltage, supposedly like ConEd did.
It would seem to me keeping as much solar online during sunny peak loads would help the grid, no?
Therefore, wouldn’t it be wiser to drop the highest consumers of power that have the least solar contribution, say big industry or data centers, in a rolling fashion (after asking for volunteers)? And/Or if you have exceptional awareness, drop areas under cloud cover (e.g. storms)
I’m an engineer, but not in ops. Does this make sense? Is it happening anywhere?