This Report provides a summary of the Synergy Alkimos Beach Energy Storage Trial including discussion on site selection and deployment of the battery, approvals and regulations, and products and tariff models.
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From April 2016 to 31 May 2021, Synergy in collaboration with Alkimos Beach development partners Lendlease and DevelopmentWA, led a project to trial community-scale energy storage.
This project aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of a new energy servicing model that virtually connects individual household solar photovoltaic (PV) systems with a community-scale energy storage system. The trial took place in Alkimos Beach, a multi-award winning 6 Star Green Star residential community in Perth’s northern suburbs.
The Alkimos Beach Energy Storage Trial (ABEST) received $3.3 million in funding (gross of tax) from ARENA through its Advancing Renewables Program. Utilising energy storage technology at a residential community level makes this trial the first of its kind in Australia.