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Australia’s Smart Meter Revolution About To Get Into Gear? | Image: Christopher Corneschi<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Implementation of rule changes in December concerning electricity meters may accelerate the uptake of home battery systems across Australia.<\/p>\n

The installation of electricity meters and related services have generally been provided by the monopoly electricity network operator. From December 1 this year, this market will be opened up with view to increasing competition and choice as well as promoting investment in metering technology and services.<\/p>\n

From December, electricity retailers will be able to install and manage meters, and this is expected to increase the rate at which smart meters are rolled out.<\/p>\n

Already in wide use in Victoria, smart meters offer advanced functionality such as\u00a0 providing consumers with more detailed information about their energy consumption. Smart meters measure and record how much electricity is consumed at 30 minute intervals and send this information via a two-way, digital communication system.<\/p>\n

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) says<\/a> a grid populated with smart meters will lead to more efficient network investment decisions, automated meter reading, remote connections and improved response times to outages.<\/p>\n

SA Power Networks recently announced it will no longer install or replace meters from December 1 and will cease to maintain or manage data for replaced metering equipment.<\/p>\n

Some retailers are already beginning to offer smart meters to replace existing units in the lead-up to December. With the rise of smart meters, so too will time-of-use (TOU) electricity tariffs become more common, where there can be a greater variation in the cost of a kilowatt-hour depending on what time of day it is consumed.<\/p>\n

While generally speaking, standard tariffs can be a better deal for solar households currently (unless no-one is home during peak pricing periods), it can be a different situation if solar batteries<\/a> are installed. As residential time-of-use pricing is usually most expensive in the late afternoon and evenings, this is when a battery can provide the greatest benefit and also accelerate the payback period on battery storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For further information on standard vs. time-of-use tariffs in relation to solar and storage, check out this detailed post<\/a> from last year by SQ blogger Ronald.<\/p>\n

With TOU also comes the opportunity for grid arbitrage; which is where electricity is stored from mains supply when it is cheapest and used when it is most expensive. However, Finn<\/a> has pointed out there would need to be a significant difference between rates to make the practice worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Last week, the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal launched a survey for NSW electricity customers who have recently requested a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General Solar & Storage News"","block_context":{"text":"General Solar & Storage News","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-battery-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Electricity meter changeover frustration","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/electricity-meter-frustration.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/electricity-meter-frustration.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/electricity-meter-frustration.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/electricity-meter-frustration.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48283,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/energy-businesses-penalties-mb1910\/","url_meta":{"origin":12184,"position":4},"title":"Australian Energy Businesses Fork Out Millions In Penalties","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"March 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The mid-year compliance and enforcement update from the Australian Energy Regulator reveals energy businesses paid $4.38 million in penalties between July and December last year. 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