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Alkimos Beach, located north of Perth, was one of the first towns to adopt a community battery in 2016. Despite the obscure fee structures and bizarre installation, it has saved the township thousands of dollars since. It begs the question, why aren’t we seeing more batteries in our suburbs and why is there backlash for something that slashes power bills by hundreds of dollars every few months?

One Step Off The Grid's Sophie Vorrath describes a microgrid planned for Australia's New South Wales that will power two communities.

Experts from the Australian National University explain how battery storage installed at neighbourhood level can benefit a very wide range of stakeholders.

The Federal Government is providing $2.9 million in funding for a two-year project focused on the uptake of Distributed Energy Resources (DER).

“The Morrison Government is backing technology to empower households to become active participants in the ACT’s electricity market – helping to

On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $2.9 million in funding for Evoenergy to utilise

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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bjorn Sturmberg, Research Leader, Battery Storage & Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Shutterstock Governments and car manufacturers are investing hundreds of billions of dollars on electric vehicles. But while the electric transport revolution is inevitable, the final destination remains unknown. The electric

Date Time Powering ahead with community batteries Community-scale batteries are already achievable in Australia, will complement existing household batteries and will allow more solar energy to be stored in our suburbs, analysis from The Australian National University (ANU) shows. With the move towards community-scale batteries gathering pace across the nation, two new reports from ANU show the best way forward when it comes to their rollout. The batteries have power capacity of around one meg...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:00 pm on April 7, 2021 | 20 comments Readers will know that the MB view of the uptake of battery power to supplant traditional baseload output reliant on fossil fuels is inevitable.  Now, Labor has seen the light with an actual policy from Albo today: Labor will spend $200m on community batteries. Each is about the size of a four-wheel drive. They will be linked to household rooftop solar and free them entirely from the grid with both inputs a...