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Storage

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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Policy & Planning

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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Battery

Evergen looks to boost battery uptake and create virtual power plant
New partnership promises to “dramatically reduce” home battery ROI, while also creating one of the world’s biggest virtual power plants.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 19, 2019

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Storage

Ausgrid completes VPP trial, plans to do more as it heads to digital future
Ausgrid looks it expand virtual power plant after succesful first trial, embracing AEMC’s vision of a digital future for energy.
Michael Mazengarb

Nov 18, 2019

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Battery

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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Battery

Tesla Powerwall 2 battery price cut by $2,000 for S.A. VPP customers
South Australian households can get around $2,000 off price of Powerwall 2 home battery – but only for members of the Tesla’s VPP program.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 12, 2019

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Other Good Stuff

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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Renewables

Statkraft plans 1GW solar, wind, storage “virtual power plant” in UK
Stakraft plans to build what it is calling UK’s first virtual power plant to integrate wind, solar, battery storage, and gas for over 1GW of power.
Joshua S Hill

Mar 7, 2019

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Smart Energy

NSW proposes 200MW virtual power plant, in bid to bolster grid
NSW looks to create 200MW virtual power plant, suggesting homes with solar and smart storage can earn up to $1,000 a year by providing services at times of grid stress in heatwaves.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 14, 2018

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Solar

Solar and storage for “cost of a coffee a day” promised in WA VPP offer
Privately funded VPP project hopes to sign up 1000 homes and businesses in south-west WA to zero up-front cost deal for solar and battery storage.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 15, 2018

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Storage

Shell buys in to fund battery company sonnen’s Australian expansion
Sonnen closes $95m financing round led by Shell Ventures, which will help fund expansion in Australia, and closer ties on EV charging and virtual power plants.
Sophie Vorrath

May 24, 2018

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Smart Energy

SolarEdge shifts focus to “shared energy economy” with new grid services solution
SolarEdge takes major step towards making distributed solar power “ubiquitous,” with the launch of a new grid services product.
Sophie Vorrath

May 3, 2018

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