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When the lights go out

Battery storage: A massive blackout, the result of a severe storm, has brought battery storage into focus in Australia. And distributed storage may be able to do much more than just keep the beer-fridge cold in the event of an outage.

By

Jonathan Gifford

02 Jan 2017

Battery storage providers are, like metaphorical bees to the honey pot, swarming to the Australian market. Underpinned by residential solar’s strong economics in the “sunburnt country,” high electricity prices, and low rates paid for PV electricity fed back into the grid, storage is an increasingly attractive proposition Down Under.“It is also helped by previous PV …

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