Solar Analytics have:
- created a range of tools to assist residential customers make an economic assessment of consumer energy resources (CER) including Solar PV, smart electric hot water, batteries and EV smart chargers.
- tools to simulate savings using different OEM products – orchestrated CER to control customer heat pumps and gain data from them.
Report extract
This report presents key findings of the ARENA-funded “Smart CER Consumer Uptake Tool Project” (the 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 integrated with a partner, Solar Thermal Australia (STA, trading under the name “Reclaim Energy”) original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM’s) heat pump hot water technology to control customers’ hot water systems (Smart Hot Water). The project has 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.
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