Virtual Power Plant Business Model in Australia Explained

Australia's VPP customer base reached 38,200 participating customers across New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia by January 2025, while participation had been growing at an average 21.9% every six months over the preceding two-and-a-half years, according to the ACCC's National Electricity Market reporting. Those figures reframe the virtual power plant business model. A […]
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Energy Self Sufficiency: A Guide for AU Battery Owners

Australia hit 100.0% energy self-sufficiency in 2023. At a national level, primary energy production exactly matched total primary energy use. That's an exceptional position, shared only by Brunei and Indonesia in recent years. Yet plenty of Queensland and New South Wales households with rooftop solar and a battery still open an electricity bill each month […]
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Finding Australia’s Greenest Energy Provider: A 2026 Guide

Most advice about finding the greenest energy provider starts in the wrong place. It tells households to compare labels, renewable claims, or GreenPower options as if buying a greener tariff is the highest-impact decision available. For many battery owners in Queensland and New South Wales, it isn't. The more important question is whether your home […]
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Solar Battery Sizes: A Guide for Australian Homes

Most advice on solar battery sizes still starts with the wrong assumption. It treats battery sizing as a storage problem, as if the only question is how much solar energy you can hold until sunset. That’s incomplete, and for many homes in Queensland and New South Wales it leads to an expensive underperforming asset. A […]
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