DC/AC - adapting the grid to renewables

Professor Neville Watson from the University of Canterbury's school of Electrical and Computer Engineering is leading the 'Architecture of the Future Low Carbon, Resilient, Electrical Power System' project, which has just secured over thirteen million dollars of MBIE funding to research the feasibility of a hybrid grid, and how high levels of DC generated by solar and wind power, electric vehicles and battery storage can be integrated into the existing AC grid.