While the rapid growth of rooftop solar, and price reductions achieved from the PV sector right across the supply chain, may have caught some Australian utilities and network businesses unprepared, the way in which these bodies are engaging with battery storage points to the positive development of the storage market. Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Logan Goldie-Scot says that along with Germany and to a lesser extent the UK, the Australian battery market is proving to be somewhat of a test balloon for the global industry. "We certainly do see that there will be significant uptake of residential energy storage in Australia, but this is more consumers adding storage without fully defecting from the grid," Goldie-Scot told pv magazine. "Australia stands out and is further ahead than some other markets largely because of the retailers and the regulator seems more willing to explore the opportunities surround storage." The Australian Energy Market Commission (AMEC) published a discussion paper in October, in which it investigated whether Australian market regulations needed to be changed to incorporate battery storage. It aims to create a regulatory framework by which storage can be deployed by households and consumers and utilized in ways to provide network support services. The submission period for this process closed on November 5. These additional networks services could open attractive additional revenue streams for distributed ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...