Vision
While Australia has attracted the development of many wind and solar farms, the model to date has been to build the maximum amount of generation on a given site and then distribute the energy into the National Energy Market (NEM).
This approach does not create long term value for existing regional industries or communities.
Areas serviced by long transmission distances and intermittent generation will benefit from distributed energy storage systems and microgrids with storage. Appropriately scaled localised generation and storage can contribute to regional regeneration of industry while also participating opportunistically in the NEM.
There are significant opportunities to design, develop and deploy regional energy solutions in conjunction with local industry and community development initiatives to improve the long-term viability and competitiveness of regional economies across Australia .
Our goal is to combine considered site selection with hybrid or tri-hybrid technologies on numerous smaller sites in a region; creating a virtual power plant and regional microgrids while securing regional industry and community support to create long term value to regional Australia and investors.
The idea is to align as many of the key stakeholders (land owners, offtakes, technology suppliers, industry, community, levels of government etc) as early as possible in the project life cycle. This allows more certainty to the process and reduces significant waste of time and cost. The greatest advantage of this approach is the ability to tailor projects to the requirements of the region and communities.
About PROJECT.e-
PROJECT.e- is a Tasmanian company with deep experience in renewable energy development.
We facilitate the development of regional matrices of distributed generation, developing groups of smaller generators in a single region linked together to form a virtual power plant (VPP) of significant scale while avoiding the delays and pitfalls inherent in developing single site large scale projects. We develop energy projects custom designed to meet the needs of the communities and regions we work in, providing behind the meter options for industry and agriculture and working with community housing projects to provide reliable, affordable energy solutions.
PROJECT.e is connected at the director level with Zephyr Energy Developments, which acquires finance for and owns the generation and storage assets .
PROJECT.e specialises in engaging with local industries and communities to generate electricity to meet load requirements locally and provide both power and ancillary services to the grid.
We are currently developing energy projects in the following regions:
• Northern Queensland
• NE New South Wales
• Tasmania
We work alongside strategic and business partners to enable our model and increase efficiency.
What we do
Where appropriate, our projects look to form a regional microgrid, fueled by a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) consisting of multiple smaller renewable generators we have developed in a given region.
We integrate our projects with communities. For example, we may partner with housing developers to integrate generation technology such as rooftop or community solar into new builds and to retrofit existing housing estates, or, we may work with local industry adding wind or solar power to their existing site and offering ‘behind the meter’ power to local business. We install appropriately sized generation assets (wind or solar) to meet and exceed local load requirements. The customer will use some of the energy, but will be a net generator, contributing to the VPP.
The developments become part of our VPP, an asset which not only contributes to our generation capability, but also enables us to help local governments address social concerns within the community, and reduce energy bills for local businesses, stimulating the local economy.
We also work with soil scientists and agronomists, maintaining or increasing the productivity of the land around and underneath or generation technology. We create biodiversity hot-spots, working with local farmers and landowners to generate the maximum productivity from the land around our sites.
We combine the above with larger scale renewable developments including wind, solar and storage which can be used to firm up the energy supply and provide FCAS for the grid.