South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and NSW could experience blackouts from too much solar power, Aemo warns

Aemo says it does not want to directly control people's rooftop solar' but it may be necessary to reduce or cut off power gleaned from the sun

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The power grid in eastern Australia could experience outage conditions" as soon as next spring unless states speed up actions to cope with surplus generation from solar panels on sunny days, the Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) has warned.

In a report released on Monday, Aemo called for an emergency backstop" mechanism to ensure grid stability when households and other solar photovoltaic (PV) owners export excess electricity.