This project is also funding a rooftop solar system on Epping North Public School.
Community batteries strengthen the grid to support more connections such as rooftop solar and electric vehicle charging. Ausgrid installed this rooftop solar system for the community to demonstrate how storage can support the uptake and use of renewable energy.
For further information read the media release.
This battery was launched in May 2024.
Eligible customers located in proximity to this battery can sign up for an Energy Storage as a Service product via a participating retailer. Click here for more details: Energy Storage as a Service.
exporting 5kWh on average per day.
Average 7kW charge rate
Ausgrid is installing a 30kW rooftop solar system on Epping North Public School, in collaboration with the NSW Department of Education.
Community batteries support more rooftop solar connecting to the grid and sharing of solar with the local community.
Garad Flying by Leanne "Mulgo" Watson Redpath
Leanne is an artist, educator, book illustrator and a Dharug woman commonly known in the Aboriginal community as Mulgo, meaning Black Swan. The daughter of Aunty Edna Watson and Uncle Allan Watson, elders of the Dharug community, Leanne was born and raised in Sydney. She started painting at a young age and has spent her life, living, promoting and protecting Dharug culture, people and places.
"The Dharug yiyura are connected to all on our ngurra we listen to country and the cries of the garads as they fly above warning us to listen, watch and learn from our ngurra."
Yiyura is a Dharug word for people. Ngurra means home, place of belonging or country. Garad is a Dharug word for the yellow-tailed black cockatoo.
