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Australia tests residentially aggregated flexible demand

Smart Energy International

The project is being called an Australian first, demonstrating aggregated flexible demand in residential settings. The project will pioneer the coordination of residential CER and smart appliances to better match energy use to supply and respond to market signals, shifting households’ energy use away from peak demand periods.

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Demand response a key element for a reinvented grid to reach net zero

Smart Energy International

Demand response and energy management are a crucial part of the solution to make Australia’s fast-changing electricity sector work reliably, writes Diogo Cabral, Senior Business Development at GridBeyond. Winter has many evenings of moderately high demand that generation supplied by rooftop PV and small-scale storage cannot serve.

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Why Build a Power Plant if You Can Make a Virtual One?

GreenTechMedia

But with carbon emissions out of fashion and growing levels of demand response and distributed renewables on the grid, virtual power plants are stepping in to replace those central generators. One company, Delta Electronics, said it could run its operations off battery power in order to ease the strain on the grid. percent up to 2025.

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Octopus Australia acquires 1GWh transmission-connected battery project

Smart Energy International

Octopus Australia has acquired the Queensland-based Blackstone battery development project with a 1GWh storage capacity, one of Australia’s largest battery systems, connected to the 275kV high voltage transmission network.

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ARENA and Shell Energy to demonstrate commercial flexibility in Australia

Smart Energy International

Shell Energy’s ‘Commercialising Smart Energy Hubs’ project will recruit at least 40 commercial and industrial (C&I) customer sites to demonstrate flexible demand capacity. To achieve the full potential of flexible demand, we will require new innovation, technologies and market processes. million ($5.7 million ($19.7

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ACEN Australia awards contracts for 200MW battery project

Smart Energy International

Renewable asset developer ACEN Australia has awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contracts for its New England 200MW/400MWh battery storage project.

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Western Australia contracts 2.8GWh battery storage

Smart Energy International

million) in contracts to deliver the new battery energy storage systems in Kwinana and Collie, together totalling 2.8GWh in storage capacity. Limited (CATL) has been contracted to supply 300 EnerC Plus, containerised liquid-cooling battery systems for Kwinana Battery Stage Two, and about 650 EnerC Plus for Collie. billion ($1.8