| Project Detail |
The project will recruit a minimum of 500 households in South Australia to demonstrate the customer and industry benefits of demand flexibility and smart electric homes and identify levers to support their deployment at scale.
Need
Australian households are progressively electrifying their homes through the adopting electric vehicles and installing a range of electric appliances and Consumer Energy Resources. This is expected to result in South Australia’s distribution network carrying up to twice the amount of electricity by 2050 than it does today. If left unmanaged, this could significantly increase peak demand on the distribution network, driving a high level of investment in network upgrades.
New demand-side flexibility technology enables customers to better optimise their in-home energy use, while supporting the needs of the network at times network constraint. By making use of the network’s existing capacity more flexibly, we can reduce the amount of additional generation, network and storage capacity needed to meet growing this demand. In turn, this will put downward pressure on energy prices for all customers. |
