Cyprus ditched energy from renewables

The issue of storing electricity from renewable energy sources in Cyprus has become a problem due to extensive production rejections of both large and small photovoltaic parks by the Transmission and Distribution Operators on Easter Sunday and Monday. This has resulted in economic losses as excess energy cannot be stored and is rejected.

The president of the Association of Scientific Personnel of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC), Sotos Savva, stated that for the first time in history, production from small photovoltaic parks has been rejected due to the exhaustion of load rejection options from large-commercial photovoltaic (PV) parks and wind farms.

As a result, the operator was forced to disconnect small PV systems from the grid for the safe operation of the power system. Larger PV parks, over 500 kilowatts, are controlled by the Transmission System...