Australians are in love with rooftop solar to such an extent that one in three homes now has solar panels on the roof and their combined capacity eclipses that of the entire coal fleet during the sunniest hours of the day.

But efforts to integrate these rapidly expanding consumer energy resources – solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles and demand “loads” that can be managed – into the electricity system to support, rather than destabilise, the grid lag far behind their take-up.