Community Batteries Program
Power and Water has been conditionally granted funding to install community batteries as part of the national community battery roll out.
Community involvement
We are looking for interested community members, ages 18 and over, from across Darwin, Palmerston and the surrounding rural area to take part in our program focus groups.
As a focus group member, you will help to guide and inform the program team of community sentiment, opinions, and suggestions.
This will allow us to consider and address community concerns, identify opportunities, and educate the wider community of impacts and benefits to customers and the Northern Territory electricity network.
Throughout the life of the program we aim to engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including residential customers, broader community members, councils, government, retailers, and generators.
You can be involved and have your say by emailing us your Expression of Interest including:
- your name and preferred contact details
- if you own or rent your home
- if you have rooftop solar panels and/or battery at home (not a necessity to participate).
On receipt of your email a staff member will contact you.
About the program
We are proposing to install 16 community batteries across the Darwin-Katherine regulated electricity network. The community batteries will have a total capacity of 17MW/36MWh.
The program will support the transition to renewable energy and enable Power and Water to locate suitable sites to install community batteries. It will also provide other benefits including:
- lower emissions
- management of solar PV curtailment
- reduced costs
- large scale development
- complement future renewable energy projects.
Program funding
This project receives funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) as part of the Community Battery Round 1 under ARENA's Advancing Renewables Program.
ARENA has conditionally approved an $11.9 million grant to the program. Power and Water’s contribution under the proposed funding agreement is $34.6 million.
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments relating to the community batteries program contact us at FutureNetworks@powerwater.com.au.