Vikki McLeod reflects on the emergent outcomes from the federal government’s community battery program. Despite advice from the community scale battery working group and feedback from ourselves about community ambition, the programs seems increasingly oriented toward the big end of town.
“However, without changing the NEM rules firstly around the DNSP current business model and secondly to allow third party ownership of ‘Community Batteries’, the DNSPs will compound the current situation of super profits as monopoly power networks exploit system failures and will fail to deliver value for energy consumers, or reduce bills.”
Image Credit: Ausgrid Photo of Ausgrid community battery in Warriewood, Sydney, from RenewEconomy website
