Australian Labor Revolution:Turning Schools Into Virtual Power Plants

May 4, 2019
Australia’s Labor Party has pushed the solar industry into the election campaign spotlight vowing to turn thousands of schools into virtual power plants. According to energy-storage news, The programme unveiled this week by opposition leader Bill Shorten would invest AU$1 billion (US$704 million) to add 364MW of solar and battery storage across 4,000 schools, starting with a few frontrunners. The so-called Solar Schools initiative would be funded via the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, a state-owned green bank created when Labor was last in power in the early 2010s. Backed by concessional loans from the body, schools would roll out new PV and battery systems or renovate existing installations. The excess power produced would feed into the grid, unlocking a new revenue stream for the centers. Schools, Labor said as it defended its plan, represent a “perfect” solar-plus-battery environment as they tend to be vacant precisely when demand is higher. For each center, the overall power bill savings could reach up to AU$120,000 (US$84,456), the party estimated. --------------------***-------------------- Source:https://tinyurl.com/y4lz784j Photo:www.energy-storage.news ……………………………………. ‘All rights to go to the author of the news & image as mentioned above’ ------------------------------------------- @billshortenmp @australianlabor







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