Yackandandah nurse backs two-way grid trading trial that could unleash $6 billion of consumer benefits

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Donna Jones volunteered for Project Edge because she wanted to support the grid’s transition from coal power to renewables. But there were far more benefits.

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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.

 

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