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AGL expands ‘virtual power plant’ beyond South Australia – The Australian Financial Review
The expansion of the program will provide customers outside South Australia with discounts on solar batteries if they allow AGL to call on and control the systems when needed.
AGL last month announced it was aiming to install 350 megawatts of distributed and demand response assets under “orchestration” by 2023-24, an almost fivefold increase from its current 72MW portfolio. Of that, its existing virtual power plant program involves about 10MW of capacity. The target is separate to its 850MW goal for grid-scale batteries by the same time, which includes plans for large-scale storage at the Liddell site in NSW.
The electricity and gas supplier started its virtual power…
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