1. Heather Smith Changing Weather Energy and Climate Change specialist Churchill Fellow 2015
State of CORE in Oz
Lessons from SA
What is CE and does SA need it?

2. Australian Community Energy

3. C4CE.net.au

4. CORE Groups & Operating Projects from c4ce.net.au
New South Wales
Australia wide: ~70 CORE Groups, 23 operating projects

5. Shareholder model:

6. A zero net energy business case:

7. Community Owned Retailer

8. Community Targets

9. Government

10. Revolving Fund

11. Energy Transition Narrative

12. Lessons from South Australia

13. About South Australia Population 1.7m Adelaide – 60% Peak Load – 3 GW
Wind capacity – 1.5 GW
Rooftop Solar – 0.8 GW
>40% renewables
1 in every four households has solar

14. What we could have done better
Minimise the boom and bust for solar industry
Sliding scale feed-in tariff
Metering to capture gross solar is short sighted
Smarter meters
Wind farm scheduling
Frequency services
Fault response
Hot water timers
Electricity Act Objectives

15. What is Community Energy and do we need it?

16. default 'green' retailers in Marin County and Hokkaido
grid buybacks in Boulder and Hamburg
sunshine tariff in Cornwall
micro-grid control and autonomy in Denmark
smart grids and user responsiveness
community ownership models
community program delivery - weatherisation programs evolving into solar programs

17. Thoughts from my trip so far
Technical, market and social systems
Distributed or decentralised
Ownership, control and regulatory structures
What does the customer want?
Democratic
Local benefits

18. Socio -technical transitions