On 19th August 2016, the COAG Energy Council published this Consultation Paper via their Energy Market Transformation Project. We’ve prepared a page on this site, specifically focused on the COAG Consultation Process as a more permanent record for us.
On July 27th and 28th 2016, the Australian Clean Energy Summit was held in Sydney. On a first day session titled “Market Trends and Outlook”, the AEMO’s David Swift provided a presentation that is currently preserved on the AEMO website…
On 30th June 2016, the AEMC completed this “2016 Retail Competition Review”. Interestingly, as part of this review we find two documents provided by Newgate Research that touched on the adoption rate of battery storage amongst residential consumers across the NEM: 1)…
We accessed the following Install Guidelines “Grid-Connected Energy Systems with Battery Storage” from this page on the “Solar Accreditation” website (direct link to PDF). We have also archived it here for your convenience. The CEC provided some comments about them here.
Back on 2nd February 2016, ABC provided this long commentary on the Tesla Powerwall battery system – and, in particular, referenced a family-of-four who live in Western Sydney and were one of the early adopters in installing one. The family’s name…
Also worth noting on this site was this AEMC report about “Regulatory Implications of the Integration of Energy Storage” – which was published back on 3rd December 2015.
As part of its “Storage safety performance study”, the Clean Energy Council (CEC) commissioned the CSIRO to produce this report: 13th Nov 2015. CSIRO. “Energy Storage Safety: Responsible installation, use and disposal of domestic and small commercial systems” The report…
Worth noting on this site was the CSIRO report “Future energy storage trends”, which was prepared for the AEMC and provided in September 2015. Interestingly, the this referenced an earlier CSIRO report noted here.
In pulling this battery storage compendium together – with a specific focus on the Energy Storage Register, but a broader interest in the battery storage area, we also came across a CSIRO report titled “Electrical Energy Storage – Technology Overview and…