People living or working near the batteries won’t notice any changes in their electricity usage.
29 May 2025
In Brief:
- Neighbourhood-scale batteries will be installed in Dickson, Casey and Fadden.
- The batteries should be ready by the end of 2025.
- The batteries are part of a trial to help us learn how battery technology can help Canberra.
Three neighbourhood-scale batteries are one step closer to being built following community consultation.
The batteries will be installed at sites across the ACT as part of a trial.
Each site is in a different place, which is ideal for trialling the battery technology.
Dickson
A densely populated suburb, with a mix of houses, apartments and businesses.
Casey
A newer suburb, where many homes already have solar panels.
Fadden
An older suburb with freestanding houses and large electricity users like schools and a childcare centre.
Each site will include a unit comprising of three batteries about the size of a fridge.
They will be set up next to an electrical substation that’s already there.
The batteries are expected to be ready by the end of 2025.
People living or working nearby won’t notice any changes in their electricity usage or supply.
The batteries will help make the electricity system stronger and more reliable.
It will improve how electricity comes into the network from household solar systems.
This trial will help to understand how batteries medium in size work in different environments and how they will help power the ACT in the future.
What are neighbourhood-scale batteries?
A neighbourhood-scale battery is:
- a battery that is medium in size
- designed to store electricity for a community or area
- larger than a household battery but smaller than a grid-scale battery
- able to store energy from the grid.
The energy will be stored and used later when it's really needed. This could be when many people are using electricity at the same time, or when there's not much solar power being made.
The batteries make the grid more reliable and efficient. They also make it easier for more households to connect solar panels.
Batteries used in neighbourhoods can help lower electricity bills and reduce pollution.
The ACT Government and Evoenergy will work together on delivery of the projects.
Evoenergy will build and take care of the batteries, which should be ready by the end of 2025.
The batteries are likely to produce 160 kilowatts of power and store 400 kilowatt hours of energy.
The Australian Government’s Community Batteries for Household Solar program is helping to pay for the project.
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