EnergyAustralia and Planet Ark Power (PAP) announced a collaboration to provide safe, dependable, and cost-effective smart energy charging solutions for the Australian transport sector.
EnergyAustralia’s electrification projects with PAP will have on-site solar, battery, and charging capabilities enabled by PAP’s eleXsys energy management platform. The eleXsys platform will assist in lowering grid connection costs and increasing the value of solar, battery, and charging energy. EnergyAustralia and PAP will collaborate to help the transport industry electrify by decreasing grid connection difficulties, lowering demand costs, and achieving speedier charging.
“We want to be the one place our customers can come for all their electric vehicle charging infrastructure and decarbonisation requirements. Our partnership with PAP will help ensure customers get an end-to-end charging and energy infrastructure solution that is safe, reliable, and affordable,” EnergyAustralia Head of NextGen Jack Kotlyar said.
Kotlyar stated that as EnergyAustralia assist its customers in transitioning from diesel and gasoline vehicles to electric vehicles via depot charging solutions, the company is aware that many customers have many locations in need of charging infrastructure, each with its own set of solar, battery, and charging equipment.
“With Planet Ark Power, EnergyAustralia will optimise the solar to ensure our customers obtain improved returns whether the solar is going to charger, battery or being exported to the grid. Chargers that are being used for the fleet, can also be opened to the public, providing a new income stream for our customers,” Kotlyar added.
According to Kotlyar, managing shifting volatility and grid instability is one of the most difficult tasks for energy network operators switching to sustainable energy. He said PAP’s eleXsys technology enables EnergyAustralia to stabilise the grid connection to these facilities, allowing it to continue offering its clients safe and stable energy.
Distributed energy can be one of the most efficient energy generation and storage modes. PAP’s energy management system not only assists with voltage regulation but is engineered to enable microgrids so that other people can share in that renewable energy. PAP’s technology will assist EnergyAustralia in converting each of these depots into microgrids that will maximise the utilisation of renewable energy generated and stored.
“We are excited to be part of this journey with EnergyAustralia, as it accelerates the clean energy transformation in transport,” PAP CEO Peter Newland said.
PAP collaborated with South Australia’s Commercial Retail Group in June of this year to open its first electric vehicle charging point at the Pasadena Shopping Centre. It will be operational in early 2023 and the state’s first and largest of its kind. The South Australian Government contributed $3 million to the project as part of its Electric Vehicle Smart Charging Trial.
Andrew Theodore, Director, Smart Infrastructure and Key Accounts, Planet Ark Power, said: “We understand EnergyAustralia has an aim to lead the clean energy transition. Our partnership will help support the transport sector that will increasingly rely on the grid as they transition to zero-emission vehicles. eleXsys makes it easier for EnergyAustralia to close the loop without expensive network infrastructure upgrades. We are excited to work with EnergyAustralia on projects where they want to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.”
As part of its market expansion plan, EnergyAustralia has been forming collaborations with key solution suppliers in the electrification and greenification of transportation.
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