Public Housing Solar Battery Trial: Data Analysis

2024

Data analysis from 15 weeks of performance data from the Public Housing Solar Battery Trial. Results show that the installed solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage systems (BESS) performed as expected, with some differences between homes due to different panel shading and orientation.

Type: Report Future Grid publication   Format: PDF

For ten­ants, the analy­sis showed that expen­di­ture on elec­tric­i­ty was reduced by the instal­la­tion of the solar bat­tery sys­tems. There were also some unex­pect­ed insights into how the sys­tems were used and the impacts on dis­con­nec­tions from the grid. 

The cohort of pub­lic hous­ing ten­ants in the tri­al were also observed to use a very large amount of elec­tric­i­ty, far more than the nation­al average.

Read more find­ings in the full report.