Community Batteries

What is a community battery?

Community batteries are a new concept for the energy industry.

They provide a storage solution to harness roof top solar in a way which can be shared to benefit many.

We're excited to be taking part in a federal government initiative to pilot community batteries at three locations across the Essential Energy footprint. At each location, a battery will be connected into our low-voltage distribution network and will be used to store roof top solar energy.

The batteries will be used to:

• Store solar energy for later use or sharing, and support further solar installations
• Put downward pressure on household electricity costs
• Provide a net benefit to the electricity network, through alleviating network congestion
• Contribute towards lowering emissions

Community Battery Locations

Maloneys Beach Maloneys Beach information >

Goulburn Goulburn information >

Leeton Leeton information >

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