Energy Resources

Diverse energy technologies that provide direct customer benefits and/or serve essential operational needs of conventional, transforming and future power systems.

Active DER/CER

Distributed Energy Resources (DER/CER) capable of automatically altering their operating behaviour in response the needs of the wider Power System. This may be in response

Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)

An electrochemical Energy Storage device that stores the output of Generation Plant in a manner that may be discharged for use later.  All charging and

Community Battery

A large-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) which provides participating Customers with the ability to store excess generation capacity from local Distributed Photovoltaic (DPV) systems

Community Solar

A large-scale Distributed Photovoltaics (DPV) system deployed to provide a community with equitable access to locally generated Renewable Energy.

Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST)

A solar-based Generation Plant that uses mirrors (also called heliostats) to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a targeted location to produce extremely high

Customer Energy Resources (CER)

A term used in some jurisdictions to describe Distributed Energy Resources (DER) that are owned and installed by Customers, typically in the form of Rooftop

Demand Management (DM)

The activation of a fleet of Flexible Resources (Distributed) to alter the Demand profile of a Feeder, Substation, Distribution Network and/or Bulk Power System.