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Jacka community-scale battery

PUBLISHED: Dec 2022

Jacka community-scale battery

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Energy Synapse was engaged by the Suburban Land Agency (ACT Government) to provide commercial, technical, and regulatory advice for community-scale battery storage in Jacka. Jacka will be one of Canberra's newest fully electric suburbs. All residents and multi-unit building owners will be encouraged to have rooftop solar to generate their own renewable energy. The Jacka community-scale battery storage system will allow future residents to store excess renewable energy, support the local grid, and deliver co-benefits to the community.

Energy Synapse was engaged to provide:

  • Independent review of the Feasibility Study and Concept Design Workshop

  • Mapping of the value streams for the following commercial models for community-scale batteries:
    − Retailer owned and operated model
    − Distribution Network Service Provider (DNSP) owned and operated model
    − Community owned and operated model
    − Third-party (non-retailer) owned and operated model

  • Summary and analysis of responses from a Market Sounding process

  • Recommendations for a future procurement process


The non-confidential aspects of our findings have been publicly released and are available for free download. Energy Synapse also produced a more detailed report, which is not available to the public.

The ACT Government is now seeking Expressions of Interest from interested entities capable of delivering grid-connected community-scale battery storage systems in the Canberra suburb of Jacka. The tender closes on 17 January 2023.