With climate change occurring, the transition of Australia’s energy sector to renewables is continuing apace. The scale of the energy transition that is unfolding now is monumental.

Key characteristics of this include:

• Disaggregation of energy generation.
• Challenge to underlying notion that future energy system will be reliant on fossil-fuel based ‘baseload’.
• Move towards distributed energy resources (DER).
• Increase in renewable energy grid share.
• Market volatility and uncertainty as this disruption occurs.
• Lagging changes in regulatory structures governing transmission and distribution.
• Rapid growth in storage infrastructure to support renewable generation.

Community Energy has the opportunity to play a big role in Australia’s future distributed/ disaggregated electricity grid. Councils have the capability, reach and land assets to facilitate many small local projects throughout one the world’s largest (by geographic scale) grids. Where projects are properly conceived, they can do this without having to own or operate energy assets themselves (which is not considered a core business of councils) and remain quarantined from the commercial risks .

We have helped communities get started in the renewable energy space, prepared strategies and detailed feasibility studies for numerous renewable energy projects.

Talk to our team about how small local renewable energy projects can become a feature of Australia’s future power grid.