Photo credit: Indigo Power, Launch of Yack01 community battery
Overview
A community battery is a mid-scale energy storage unit that can help communities make better use of locally generated solar energy. It can either be directly connected to the grid (for example, it may sit on an easement at the end of a street), or it can be part of an existing premise (for example, a community centre).
These batteries are called ‘community batteries’ as they typically provide benefits to the local community – generally up to a few hundred households. Benefits may include storing excess solar from local solar rooftop systems or, in some cases, providing energy to the local community during outages.
