Community batteries
Batteries are key to supporting the growth of renewable energy sources. A community battery is a shared solution for a local neighbourhood that allows both that neighbourhood and the wider community to access the multiple benefits batteries can provide.
Narara Community Battery

Benefits of community batteries

  • Allows more rooftop solar and electric devices such as electric vehicle chargers to be connected without expensive network upgrades.
  • Strengthens the grid and reduces the need to limit (curtail) solar exports. This helps customers maximise their solar investment.
  • Helps explore new models that share more electricity produced from solar panels within the local area, including to households without solar panels.
  • Creates a positive impact on wholesale electricity prices that could eventually flow through to reduced retail electricity prices.
  • Helps to regulate voltage on the network and improves network quality in the local area.
  • Reduces reliance on traditional poles and wires investment and helps lower network costs.
  • Access to an online information hub where the community can see how much energy was stored and used daily.
Bondi Community Battery

 
Ausgrid launches Energy Storage as a Service Partnership

Ausgrid has announced a partnership with retailers which will save eligible customers hundreds of dollars.

Energy Storage as a Service (ESaaS) allows eligible customers to benefit from community batteries across the Ausgrid network in a similar way to a household battery but without the upfront costs.

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