Solar project on Fijian island offers lessons for New Zealand’s energy future
A New Zealand-led solar and battery installation on a remote Fijian island has been completed after two years of planning.
A solar and battery system has been deployed on a remote Fijian island with no grid connection. The project involved shipping 2,000 solar panels from New Zealand and manually transporting them to the site. The installation represents a first deployment of the battery system at this scale in such a remote location.
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What a Fijian island taught me about New Zealand's energy future
Rain was bucketing down when we switched the system on. We were five hours from the nearest airport, on a remote Fijian island with no grid connection, no local supply chain, and a battery system that had never before been…