New Ability Energy
Notes from the sites we are on.
How systems get sized, what the standards actually require, and what the measurements said afterwards.
Which battery incentive does your site fall under?
From 1 September 2026 NSW runs three commercial battery incentives. They are not three tiers of one scheme. Three questions decide which one applies to your site.
The three NSW battery incentives, and who each one covers
If you have been following the home battery rebate, this is not that scheme. What commences on 1 September 2026, and which sites it applies to.
3 min 02Why a battery-only proposal does not qualify
Two of the three NSW battery activities require solar on site at a fixed ratio. A battery-only proposal does not qualify, and an array sized for load can still fall short.
3 min 03Why nobody can quote you an exact figure
The NSW commercial battery incentive is delivered through certificates, and certificates carry a market price. An exact dollar figure in a proposal is a claim, not a forecast.
3 min 04Four dates that changed commercial energy in NSW
November 2025, August 2026, 1 September, 1 October. Four announcements, reported separately, pointing the same way.
3 min 05Battery incentives for apartment buildings
Strata committees have been told for years that solar is the first step. For one of the three NSW battery activities, it is not a step at all.
3 min 06Why commercial solar systems stop at 99 kW
Australia's most common commercial solar size sits just under 100 kW. That is not a coincidence. It is what happens when crossing a line changes which scheme you are in.
3 min 07Solar rebates for systems between 100 kW and 1 MW
From 1 October 2026, subject to regulations, systems in this band create small-scale certificates instead of large-scale ones. What changes, and what does not.
3 min 08Why the switchboard decides your solar programme
Scope creep on an energy job usually starts at the switchboard, and usually after the solar contractor has left site. What splitting the scope actually costs.
3 min 09Sizing solar and storage together
One reform cuts the cost of the array. The other pays for the battery that array has to feed. They commence a month apart, and almost nobody is reading them together.
3 minWhat interval data actually tells you
Roof area tells you how many panels fit. Interval data tells you which of them will ever pay for themselves.
4 min 21 July 2026Sixteen floodlights, and the part nobody quotes for
The lamps were the easy bit. The tower access, the glare and the standard were the job.
3 min 2 July 2026When a battery does not earn its keep
Storage is the most requested and least interrogated line on a commercial proposal.
3 min 18 August 2026Sizing a commercial array from interval data
The working behind a proposal: what gets requested, what gets modelled, what gets checked, and where a system stops being worth building.
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