This Technical Report describes improvements in Tool precision and user experience, including nationwide coverage of all Australian postcodes and DNSPs. Solar Analytics integrated with heat pumps, but faced challenges in gaining customer engagement for control load access. Optimisation algorithms compared to simple timers showed no significant benefits.
Report extract
This report presents key findings of the Smart CER Consumer Uptake Tool Project. CER are Consumer Energy Resources such as rooftop solar, residential batteries and controlled hot water heating. The project has developed an online consumer smart energy tool (the Tool) that provides residential customers with an economic assessment of consumer energy resources (CER), including solar PV, smart electric hot water, batteries, and electric vehicle (EV) smart chargers.
The project has also developed and assessed methods of controlling heat pumps in an optimum way to maximise consumer savings, and ultimately incorporated them into a “smart hot water fleet” of 1000 electric hot water systems, to illustrate the potential for flexible demand capacity with smart hot water.
