It is important to test that your neighbourhood battery is having a positive impact on the network and actually providing the desired network services. The main network services you will want to be testing will be the neighbourhood battery’s ability to increase hosting capacity in the neighbourhood without increasing peak electricity demand (as this can trigger unwanted and expensive network upgrades).
There are three main areas that a neighbourhood battery may impact the distribution network: solar hosting capacity, local energy management, and voltage impacts.
Modelling operation of a neighbourhood battery
See Performing calculations of network impacts.
To access all articles on network services, see Network Goals & Impacts.