Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: Australian Electricity Retailers Selling Battery Systems to Customers with Solar

June 2nd, 2015

In other news, Meridian CEO Mark Binns shits the bed. haha

Here’s another one for you, Mark: New Zealand Solar Uptake Triples. Have a nice day.

Via: Sydney Morning Herald:

Snowy Hydro’s retail arm Red Energy, ActewAGL and Queensland’s Ergon Energy will trial a home battery system made by Panasonic in a bid to ensure they don’t miss out on a “revolution” set to hit the Australian energy supply market.

The three retailers expect to start commercial sales of the eight kilowatt-hour, lithium-ion storage system in October.

Several electricity retailers were late catching on to the massive swing by households to solar PV and are making sure they get in early on battery storage. Major player AGL Energy, with 3.8 million customers, launched its first initial battery product last month, a 6 kW unit, while arch rival Origin Energy is set to introduce one later this year.

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