Public Art Project
Felicity was recently commissioned to create Public Art for the Jemena Solar Electricity Company. The work is displayed on a the Bellfield Community Battery Hub in Naarm.
Community batteries (or neighbourhood batteries) store energy, often soaking up power generated by rooftop solar during the day. The energy is then shared with nearby homes and businesses through their existing electricity supply, this will often occur in the evening when there is more demand on the electricity grid.
Community batteries can help stabilise the electricity grid by soaking up excess solar during the day and using it to reduce demand on the grid during peak times at night. This also enables the electricity network to support more rooftop solar to be exported back into the grid, particularly in neighbourhoods that have a high number of homes with rooftop solar.
Community batteries benefit electricity customers by making renewable energy available to all customers connected to the local network, not just those with rooftop solar. This can help reduce carbon emissions across the whole neighbourhood. Community batteries can also help reduce solar export
Each battery will have around 4000kWh of storage which is the same amount of energy used by around 165 homes for two hours at night!
Thank you to Paula Mahoney, photographer for documenting the artwork for print.
Thank you to Thomas Crawshaw for the use of his stunning Tawny Frogmouth photographs taken along the Darebin Creek.
