Posted by Jason Cartwright
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August 20, 2021
The Victorian Authorities has awarded grants to jumpstart the roll-out of neighbourhood-scale batteries and energy storage stories to maximise advantages of solar for households, firms and community organisations because the snort works to halve emissions by 2030.
The Minister for Energy, Setting and Native weather Commerce Lily D’Ambrosio as of late announced 16 groups led by community organisations, native councils and substitute will part in $3.68 million in grants thru the Neighbourhood Battery Initiative.
The program is funding pilots and demonstrations of a ramification of neighbourhood battery possession and operational units to free up the aptitude of neighbourhood-scale energy storage in Victoria’s transition to natty energy.
Successful groups encompass:
- Yarra Energy Foundation – $800,000 for construction of a neighbourhood ‘solar sponge’ battery in Fitzroy North.
- Geelong Sustainability Workforce – $150,000 to resolve the feasibility of setting up a bunch of neighbourhood batteries all the scheme thru Geelong to abet residents to store their excess solar energy.
- Energy Innovation Co-operative – $150,000 to analyze how neighbourhood batteries could well well additionally increase Phillip Island reaching 100 per cent renewable energy and changing into carbon neutral by 2030.
Neighbourhood-scale batteries can relieve Victorian electricity customers, networks and communities by absorbing excess output from residential solar systems all thru the day, and then dispatching it when significant in the evening.
These batteries can maximise entry to the potential generated by the a total bunch of thousands of solar systems all the scheme thru the snort, with Victoria’s Photograph voltaic Homes Program having considered file ranges of rooftop solar systems installed.
About 20 per cent of Victorian households now believe solar panels, a resolve that will well well additionally develop to 50 per cent by 2030.
The Neighbourhood Battery Initiative is an element of the file $1.6 billion natty energy package announced in the Victorian Worth range 2020/21. The package is handing over family and enterprise energy efficiency initiatives, increase wanted grid infrastructure, pressure down emissions and increase extra Photograph voltaic Homes.
Information about all profitable grants please visit: energy.vic.gov.au/new-energy-technologies.
“Neighbourhood batteries are the biggest part of our transition to renewable energy. They’ll absorb energy from family solar and allow for your total community to believe the advantage of this natty energy.”
“We are building a modernised electricity network to put together for Victoria’s natty energy revolution and mean that households, firms and community organisations can believe the advantage of battery technology.”
Minister for Energy, Setting and Native weather Commerce Lily D’Ambrosio
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Victoria awards $3.68 million for Neighbourhood Batteries
