WATCH: Essential Energy's Luke Jenner talks about the community battery trial starting in 2025 and why Bathurst was chosen.
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00:00The benefit of a pole-mounted battery is that it allows customers to generate, store, and then use their own renewable energy locally within their community.
00:13The pole-mounted battery works exactly like any other battery, whether it was a battery in somebody's home or a battery in an EV.
00:21It's connected to our low-voltage distribution network, and it is charged using excess solar throughout the middle of the day, and then it can discharge that energy in the evening when the sun's not shining.
00:34Bathurst was chosen for the trial because the locations where we're putting the batteries have got an excess of solar generation throughout the day, so that means we can put that excess solar generation into the battery, and then in the evening we can use that electricity back into the grid.