In the future, a Community Battery capacity will be leased out to retailers who trade energy to maximise profits which they can use to provide better offers to customers. The Community Power Network batteries are run by Ausgrid to promote more local solar and flatten grid demands with all generation and energy profits going back to local customers.
The Community Power Network will have a large number of smaller batteries spread across each suburb, all orchestrated to work together to meaningfully support the grid and local solar market. Whereas Community Batteries are larger but spread across the network so they serve pockets of customers in the surrounding area, but these are not linked together.
Community Batteries (and other commercially or privately owned batteries) could be made to work within a Community Power Network as one of the many batteries being orchestrated.