Read our spotlight interview with Colin Smith, General Manager Customer Experience at Synergy, to find out about what makes this project unique, lessons from the trial and the role the community batteries will play in Australia’s energy future.
Report extract
The Alkimos Beach Energy Storage Trial1 (ABEST) set out to test the feasibility of how customer distributed energy resources (DER), with a specific focus on rooftop solar, could be used in conjunction with a community-scale battery to deliver benefits for the stability of the electricity network and for customers.