
By Nestor Fylaktos
Recently the Cypriot electricity system has made it a habit to curtail a significant portion of solar Photovoltaic (PV) generation during daylight hours, to the irritation of PV system owners and the society at large. This is happening due to what we call ‘overgeneration’.
While the sun is shining, much of the available solar power (the yellow curve in the accompanying graph) is left unused because the