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"To power Australia without fossil fuels will mean using batteries to store
power from solar and wind. We often think this means home batteries – or large
grid-scale installations.
There’s another size too: community-scale or neighbourhood batteries, which are
growing rapidly in Australia due to support from state governments like
Victoria and Western Australia and, more recently, from the federal government.
They seem to solve a lot of problems we know people are concerned about – such
as enabling more rooftop solar and helping to speed up a transition to
renewables.
But the popularity of these batteries shouldn’t be the only factor in decisions
about where they are rolled out. Sometimes – and in some parts of the grid –
they make sense. At other times, they may not be the best solution.
Our research explores when community batteries are – and are not – useful. In
short, we find the main use of these batteries is to make the grid able to
handle more solar and electric vehicles. But they’re not the only option. This
is why we have produced a decision-making tool for policymakers to figure out
where and when these batteries are worthwhile."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
