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  • Home battery trial set to launch in all-electric, all-solar Canberra suburb

    Home battery trial set to launch in all-electric, all-solar Canberra suburb

    Evoenergy prepares to launch a government-backed battery storage trial across up to 75 solar homes in the all-electric ACT suburb of Ginninderry.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Sep 17, 2020
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  • Tesla VPP expands to add virtual Big Battery to South Australia grid
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    Tesla VPP expands to add virtual Big Battery to South Australia grid

    Another 3,000 Powerwall batteries take Tesla SA VPP to 54MWh of combined storage to act as a single “power plant” offering services including synthetic inertia.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Sep 4, 2020
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  • How a virtual ‘big battery’ could get South Australia’s grid out of hot water
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    How a virtual ‘big battery’ could get South Australia’s grid out of hot water

    Intellihub proposes to transform South Australia’s 200,0000-odd residential electric hot water systems into a massive solar battery, to help solve grid stability problems.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Aug 13, 2020
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  • Household batteries and solar will be critical for managing highs and lows of the grid
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    Household batteries and solar will be critical for managing highs and lows of the grid

    Latest AEMO study into virtual power plants shows how household batteries and solar will be critical for managing highs and lows of the grid.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Jul 27, 2020
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  • Virtual Power Plant a natural fit for Echuca Regional Health
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    Virtual Power Plant a natural fit for Echuca Regional Health

    The grid needs additional flexible capacity from alternate sources such as VPPs for stability, to reduce power prices and prevent broader outages. And they deliver unique benefits to hospitals.
    Sponsored Post by Enel X
    Jun 24, 2020
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  • Ausgrid seeks thousands of NSW homes to join expanded virtual power plant
    Battery

    Ausgrid seeks thousands of NSW homes to join expanded virtual power plant

    After a successful phase one, Ausgrid launches second phase of household battery-based virtual power plant, with two new “aggregator” partners – ShineHub and Evergen.
    Sophie Vorrath
    May 29, 2020
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  • How your home battery can help keep the grid stable and prices down
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    How your home battery can help keep the grid stable and prices down

    Tesla data shows how household batteries orchestrated through “virtual power plants” provide critical system security services and push down costs for all consumers.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Apr 3, 2020
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  • US housing complex to put Sonnen batteries inside all 600 apartments
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    US housing complex to put Sonnen batteries inside all 600 apartments

    All-electric, solar housing complex in Utah to feature a Sonnen battery inside all 600 apartments, in deliberate design “statement” unlikely to be replicated in Australia any time soon.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 12, 2020
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    Bushfire crisis: The answer to future energy security lies on our rooftops

    Australia’s bushfire crisis underscores urgent need to decentralise Australia’s electricity grid. Building up networks of solar batteries is the quickest, easiest, cheapest answer.
    Alex Georgiou
    Jan 24, 2020
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  • South Australia household batteries keeps lights on in Queensland after coal unit fails
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    South Australia household batteries keeps lights on in Queensland after coal unit fails

    Tesla batteries in hundreds of low income households in South Australia came to the rescue when the country’s biggest coal unit in Queensland tripped in October.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Nov 15, 2019
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  • Ausgrid seeks to expand virtual power plant to cut back on network costs
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    Ausgrid seeks to expand virtual power plant to cut back on network costs

    Network operator Ausgrid seeking proposals to expand its virtual power plant, targeting the estimated 5,000 batteries within its network and help defray investment costs.
    Michael Mazengarb
    May 22, 2019
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  • Ausgrid and Reposit unveil  1MW virtual power plant
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    Ausgrid and Reposit unveil 1MW virtual power plant

    Ausgrid and Reposit launch trial 1MW virtual power plant linking the rooftop solar and battery storage of 233 customers across 170 suburbs.
    Joshua S Hill
    Apr 1, 2019
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