Connect your existing solar battery to our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and become part of a growing network of home solar batteries.
Your solar battery will work with others to help take pressure off the electricity grid when needed - like on days when there’s high energy demand. This way, you'll help support energy reliability.
To say thanks, you'll earn credits on your AGL electricity bill.
It works as an add-on to an AGL electricity plan, so there’s no installation or software required.
Tell us a few details, and one of our solar battery experts will give you a call. Or call us on 1300 157 765
A Virtual Power Plant, or VPP for short, is sometimes used to refer to a network of connected solar batteries that can be managed as one.
The idea is that individual solar batteries can be coordinated, and in doing so become a pop-up power plant. So small amounts of energy stored in individual solar batteries can become a large amount of controllable energy. This can help stabilise the electricity grid and contribute to making energy more affordable in the future.
How your solar battery is remotely managed depends on the circumstances at the time. It's based on the best way we think can help take pressure off the grid.
Sometimes we’ll discharge energy from your solar battery and power your home. Any leftover energy will be supplied to the grid and you’ll receive your feed-in tariff as per your AGL electricity plan.
Other times, we’ll either charge your solar battery from your solar system, or charge it from the grid (and you’ll pay your usual grid rate). There may also be times when we just hold your solar battery’s charge steady.
Your solar battery has inbuilt software that allows us to talk to it in real-time. There are no wires or physical connections.
You won't need to install any additional hardware. Providing you have a compatible Tesla or LG Energy Solutions solar battery, AGL's Virtual Power Plant can be added on to any AGL electricity plan.
When you supply energy back to the grid, you’ll continue to receive your feed-in tariff as per your AGL electricity plan.
You're free to switch your electricity plan at any time as there are no lock-in contracts. However, you must remain on an AGL electricity plan in order to connect to our Virtual Power Plant.
We’re not quite ready to sign up all solar batteries. Right now, we can connect with Tesla Powerwall, SolarEdge Energy Bank or LG Home Battery with a compatible SolarEdge inverter.
Let us know if you have a different solar battery or inverter type and we'll look to include it in our VPP in the future. Email us anytime at batterysupport@agl.com.au.
