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Originally Posted by DarkArts
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Stimulating battery uptake is a good policy - we have abundant solar installations but the power glut in the middle of the day can cause problems - batteries are the most useful way to address that problem and they can also provide resilience and redundancy in case of disaster. 'Virtual power plants', community-scale batteries and other energy storage (e.g. pumped hydro) would also be good.
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The idea of having home batteries and vpps is good but I think community batteries would have many advantages in terms of access (particularly for renters and high rise apartments), maintenance & replacement, and cost per kWh of storage. I'd like to see batteries on the grid at substations and other nodes. Ausgrid missed an opportunity in that regard. My local substation had a largish block of vacant land next door which looked to me to be a great location for a battery. It's now under units. [The land was one a horse paddock for the pit ponies of Corrimal mine. Latter my friend's uncle mowed it and a few of us played cricket on it. Then it became overgrown before being redeveloped.]
Sorry for the digression, back to the tarrifs.