The community battery at Narara has been switched on at last.
It is the second battery to be delivered under the Federal Government’s Community Batteries for Household Solar program.
The 412-kilowatt-hour Narara battery, built by Ausgrid, will provide cleaner, cheaper energy and will help with energy reliability when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
One in three Australian homes now have rooftop solar, and investments in storage like the battery will allow more households in the area to access the cost-of-living benefits of household solar.
Recent analysis shows that households in NSW can save $1,015, or 48 per cent off their annual energy bills with rooftop solar – but they need a grid that can support reliable energy when the sun goes down.
Cheap solar energy doesn’t just benefit individual households but the whole energy market, with the 31 per cent growth in rooftop solar last quarter helping to deliver a 71 per cent reduction in wholesale prices in a year.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen did the honours by turning on the Narara battery on November 3.
“Delivering more storage like we’re doing today enables more households to reliably access the cost-of -living relief offered by solar,” he said.
“We committed to deploy 400 community batteries to help households access cheaper, cleaner energy, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.
“Community batteries store locally generated, clean, excess solar energy for later use, putting downward pressure on household electricity costs and easing pressure on the grid.”
Federal Member for Roberston Gordon Reid said community batteries helped suburbs transition to renewable energy, reducing their carbon footprint and helping with the cost of energy.
This battery is the second of 58 batteries being delivered through the Business Grants Hub
The remaining 342 community batteries will be overseen by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).
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Member for Robertson Gordon Reid
Such a small battery at such an enormous cost. This is why government needs tos stay out of things like this.
Go Nuclear Chris Bowen you are never going to reach your targets buy clearing habit and polluting the waterways
We need Nuclear, clean energy
A great development.
In some cases it may be preferable to install them on power poles like the one at the corner of Gallipoli & Memorial Ave Blackwall, so they don’t take up ground space. It’s a 60kWh unit, compared to the box on the ground at 412 kWh.