What’s next: Time-of-use tariffs are needed to encourage more participation in “virtual power plants”
The aged care nurse lives in the Victorian town of Yackandandah with husband Nigel, three kids, 4.5 kilowatts of solar panels and a 6.5 kilowatt hour LG home battery. Project EDGE, whose sponsors also included distribution company Ausnet Services and its unregulated networks arm Mondo, aimed to show how a distribution network can host efficient two-way trading in power from co-ordinated distributed energy resources via virtual power plants so that consumers benefit from the transition to net zero.