In the hopes of creating some discussion points, I have provided links to some items about community batteries and the development of projects. Do Governments and Electricity providers seem to be doing enough development of community batteries? How would one benefit your household? Is the rollout fast enough?
From 2023 (2024 funding round may not have occurred)
On 4 April 2023, we announced the Community Batteries Funding Round 1 of up to $120 million to deploy community batteries across Australia.
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Ten new batteries at over-50s communities across regional Queensland, NSW and Victoria will enable storage of distributed renewable energy for later use, reduce distribution network constraints, and put downward pressure on electricity prices.
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Low voltage connected batteries at locations across Brisbane and regional south-east Queensland enable storage of neighbourhood rooftop solar for later use, reduce distribution network constraints, and help put downward pressure on electricity...
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https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/our-network/future-energy/community-batteries
The following link may be of interest to SE Qld Nth Coast residents
In February 2023, Council secured a $500,000 federal government Batteries for Household Solar grant, in partnership with Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF) and the Noosa not-for-profit community organisation Zero Emissions Noosa Inc (ZEN Inc).YEF have...
Some of our Community posts in no particular order of date
A benefit regarding Demand or Time of Use tariffs is that if the draw from the Community Battery can be made at peak periods, this could possibly reduce the impact of the cost increases due to those peak pricing increases.
I’m not sure how users would do so. Perhaps by setting timers in the applications for the household inverters or similar to cease production or battery draw, to make the draw occur at the peak periods rather than another more random time? Is there an approved way to time the…
In Victoria
Reading what is currently on offer are modest sized projects in limited areas.
Origin at least are trialling Community Batteries in both NSW and Qld. In Qld it is in cooperation with Energex, in NSW it is with 3 power companies. At the moment the areas are very limited, this doesn’t mean that households shouldn’t register interest in participating in the schemes.
In some cases you need to be a customer of Origin, in others this is not a requirement.
https://www.originenergy.com.au/origin-loop-community-battery/#nearesttrial
People without solar panels can also partic…
The AER does not set retail energy prices , but it provides a price comparison website, Energy Made Easy , to help customers find the best energy offers for their needs.
It pays to shop around, as little as the offers may be.
Currently AGL in QLD has been publicly advertising Solar FiT of 12c/kWh. Other retailers offer premiums for export based on instantaneous network demand and time of day. Free enterprise and competition principles.
Note the ‘Final Determination’ superseded the ‘Draft’ ver…
So I for one am hoping my next car will be an EV and recent arrivals on our shores have certainly increased choice compared to even six months ago.
But my major hurdle is not having a driveway/garage/ car port for daytime charging from my solar.
There has been a bit in the news about councils trialling to offer to install a charging point to the nature strip through a trench or something, but the cost is very high. There have also been observations about many people running cables high over th…
An article regarding using cow manure to generate electricity, recycling, solar, and community battery storage.
Great stuff.
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A good news article regarding community batteries.
Near enough! Although the reality may be that the poles and wires and transformers are not a concern. They will happily send power in either direction up to their full load rating without a hiccup.
For the more local distribution. The tap changing equipment/settings, the ability to control/direct the flows of power back into the grid, and some fault protection requirements are the areas that may most need to be considered. The response of the local networks to sudden shifts in loading (import…
Not every house can take advantage of VPPs. If you have medical equipment at the house and use a battery (battery being necessary to a VPP), then you can’t be part of a VPP as the battery is considered to be needed as a backup to the medical equipment’s power needs. So there are some and I would suggest an increasing number of households that cannot be part of a VPP. We cannot be part of a VPP because of this requirement, we would love to be part of one. So yes it would be better, but harde…
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