Yackandandah Sports Park, the location for 'Yack02’, Yackandandah’s second community battery. Photo credit: Yackandandah Sports Park Management Committee.
Location
- Yackandandah Sports Park, Victoria.
Project initiator
- Totally Renewable Yackandandah (TRY).
Intended battery owner and operator
- Indigo Shire Council.
Installer partner
- Indigo Power.
Project funding
- Substantially funded under the Victorian Government's 100 Neighbourhood Batteries Program.
- Generous donation from the Australian Ethical Foundation.
- TRY internal funding.
- Substantial in-kind resources from the Sports Park Committee and Indigo Shire Council.
Project status
- Final design in progress (August 2024).
Objectives
- Support Yackandandah’s journey to achieve a 100% renewable energy supply.
- Dramatically cut power bills for the 7 volunteer community sporting groups at the Sports Park.
- Boost the proportion of ‘low carbon’ power in the network each evening.
- Store daytime rooftop solar generation to power the sports park each evening, and then export excess solar to the local electricity grid.
- Provide backup power to electrical appliances during outages or after emergencies, providing the community with access to backup power for charging devices, heating and cooling, toilets and basic cooking facilities.
Features
- 63kW of rooftop solar generation
- Pixii 60kW/200Wh battery
- Islandable battery
- Mondo Ubi Smart Energy Controller
- A generator change over plug to connect a mobile generator if needed.
How it will work
- During normal electricity network operating conditions, the battery will:
- provide power to the Yackandandah Sports Park first
- store any excess solar and discharge it to the grid in the evening. Once the battery is fully charged, the solar will export to the grid. Energy exported to the grid is sold to the wholesale electricity market.
- During an outage, the battery will:
- provide power to the Yackandandah Sports Club. The battery will operate in islanding mode, which means it will work separately from the electricity grid and continue to supply power as long as there is sufficient solar generated by the rooftop solar system.
Totally Renewable Yackandandah Quote
“Totally Renewable Yackandandah is firmly focused on a transition to 100% renewable energy. This community battery is an important step forward to boost local storage, reduce carbon emissions, provide a place of energy resilience and test how neighbourhood-scale batteries can augment local networks. This project is a testament to positive, thoughtful and ambitious partnership!”