The CEO of NSW distribution company Ausgrid has found a sweet spot in the gap between residential batteries and utility scale batteries that could save the state $20 billion on its energy storage rollout.
England says NSW’s energy storage task over the next five years is about 16 gigawatt hours – the equivalent of about 1.33 million residential 12 KWh batteries’ storage capacity. He says that if half of the capacity of the household batteries expected to be installed over that period were instead 20 MWh community batteries, which cost about 40 per cent of household batteries per KWh, the savings would be $19 billion to $20 billion.
Locating community batteries on a distributor’s poles or substations eliminates the problem of NIMBY objectors. Arena funding would also help Ausgrid and other proponents establish the commercial viability of community batteries.
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