Australia now has around half a million home batteries, thanks to the federal Cheaper Home Batteries program. Almost none of them can be dispatched. Glenn Dahlenburg puts it at 90 to 95% that no retailer can control, because customers don't want anyone else touching their battery.
Glenn spent twenty years at the edge of Queensland's grid, and most recently built Energy Queensland's ~$300 million battery programme, including one-tonne batteries mounted on power poles. We talk about why community batteries will probably stay niche in Australia, why a network might one day deliver 22 hours a day and leave the rest to your battery, the swamp line that made the first case for standalone power, and his surprisingly good argument for an air conditioner on the balcony.
And his call-out at the end, the one I keep thinking about: everyone is working out how to get batteries into the market, but almost nobody is thinking about how to get them out.
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