Rooftop solar on homes and businesses took its biggest bite yet out of the traditional “baseload” midday lunch on Wednesday, as the combined output hit a record of 15,597 megawatts (MW) at noon AEST.

The record, which beat the previous high set earlier in the month by more than 500 MW, also took the market share of rooftop solar and large scale on Australia’s main grid to a new peak of 71.5% around the same time.

According to the data collectors at GPE NEMLog, that beat the previous record set more than a year ago. There was little wind output at the time.

Rooftop PV also set output records this week in NSW (5,549 MW) and Victoria (3,818.7 MW), and while a number of big battery charging records were also established in several states — with NSW........

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