A collaboration between Western Power, Synergy, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and Energy Policy Western Australia (WA), Project Jupiter is accelerating the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), including rooftop solar and customer and community batteries, at scale into Western Australia’s main energy system, the South West Interconnected System (SWIS).
This is enabling households and businesses to participate in virtual power plants (VPPs) and the energy transition.
Synergy, Western Australia’s largest electricity generator and a retailer of gas and electricity, is utilising Itron’s low voltage distributed energy resource management system (LV DERMs) solution that includes the IEEE 2030.5 Common Smart Inverter Profile-Australia (CSIP-Aus) utility server from Itron technology partner Kitu.
The server registers, monitors and controls DERs, which aims to enhance the integration and management of battery energy storage systems.
“Project Jupiter is exciting because customers will have the choice to join a VPP and unlock greater value from their energy assets. With Itron’s LV DERMS, Synergy will work to test DER compliance so that when DER assets are installed, they can be supported to be registered and orchestrated in a VPP,” said Don Reeves, senior vice president of Outcomes at Itron.
“Our server achieved one of the first certified 2030.5 systems and plays an ongoing part in defining and assuring compliance to emerging standards. This is an exciting project, and we look forward to helping to support VPP participation in Western Australia,” said Rick Kornfeld, president and CEO of Kitu Systems.
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