AEMO's 2022 Integrated System Plan underlines key role distributed solar and storage will play in Australia's energy transition. The Northern Territory gears up to deliver its first ever solar and battery virtual power plant, after signing up SwitchDin to help deliver the ground-breaking trial. An entire community of households and businesses is in the process of quitting the reticulated gas network, backed by state government. A record amount of home battery installations in Victoria in 2021 was not enough to deliver another year of growth for the Australian market. AEMO's 2022 Integrated System Plan underlines key role distributed solar and storage will play in Australia's energy transition. Plenti and OpenSolar extend their partnership to make solar accessible to more people while also helping solar installers to convert more leads to sales. A Western Australian gold mine is now being powered by solar power, the first operational project under the state's Clean Energy Future Fund. WA tips another $37m to deploy 180 standalone power systems across the state, as it aims for 1,000 over four years. Tasmanian Economic Regulator sets state's rooftop solar feed-in tariff for 2022-2023 to a minimum rate of 8.8c/kWh, up from 6.5c/kWh in 2021-22. Two ground-breaking NSW community solar farms – both approved to add battery storage – have opened up shares in their projects to investors nation-wide. There are many ways to improve the way we currently manage demand – and many of them can lead to lower bills for consumers. Victorians have less than two weeks to apply for a $3,500 rebate on home battery storage, with the subsidy amount set to fall in July. ANU-led project selects eight communities on NSW south coast for deeper look into transitioning them to renewable and battery-based microgrids. Microsoft contracts Enchanted Rock to develop a data center microgrid – the largest in California to date that will use "renewable natural gas" to offset fossil fuels. The “self-powering” mobile mast incorporates a small wind turbine, solar and battery storage and aims to solve the problem of remote connectivity. NSW pricing regulator almost doubles rooftop solar feed-in tariff benchmark for the state as coal and gas prices and outages reverse the renewable price trend.
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