Part 1 of our chat with Stephen Hinchcliffe. About Stephen: Stephen is a Chartered Engineer (UK), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK), has a Ph.D. in power inverter technologies, Masters’ degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Business Administration and in Commercial Law with more than twenty-five years' energy sector working on projects in the UK, Europe, Northern Africa, Indonesia, Chile, PNG, Australia, and New Zealand. Impressed yet?

We learned:

• What is system strength? In short, a measure of the network’s ability to maintain voltage levels during fault conditions
• What will the transition to renewables look like?
• As Australia’s power system transitions toward renewable forms of power generation, system strength has emerged as a prominent issue and has led to difficulties in developing and operating renewable generation projects.

Further reading: Stephen suggests reading the report Managing System Strength during the transition to renewables.

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