Australia – ShineHub has teamed with global digital energy platform provider Amp X to provide large and small-scale solutions to the acute energy challenges faced across the country.
A new partnership has been formed between national and international market leaders that brings a unique technology offering to Australia’s energy industry. Australia’s leading solar technology company ShineHub has teamed with global digital energy platform provider Amp X to provide large and small-scale solutions to the acute energy challenges faced across the country.
ShineHub Founder Alex Georgiou said the partnership had been formed to meet the increasing needs of industry for more efficient, reliable and scalable energy solutions along the transition journey to net zero.
Mr Georgiou said:
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By combining the capabilities of ShineHub and Amp X, we can provide innovative digital energy solutions through a whole-of-system approach, including a virtual power plant platform to serve the needs and solve the challenges of the Australian energy market, from utilities to residential customers and everyone in between.
“And by structuring asset financing through a Pay-As-You-Go model, virtual power plant solutions are not only highly effective and stable, but also affordable.”
“We’re delighted to be able to bring together the proven small-scale battery and customer software strengths of ShineHub with the disruptive in-front and behind-the-meter grid-edge capabilities of Amp X in a first-of-its-kind offering to the Australian market.2
“This is about harnessing the world class energy technology and experience of two leading providers to address the needs of local Australian operators and customers of all sizes. Together, utilising world- leading technology, we’re able to tailor a full service digital solution to both entire communities and to large grid scale networks incorporating generation and storage assets that also potentially incorporates hydrogen production.”
For grid operators, that includes a suite of services enabling the dynamic shaping of demand that helps meet some of the challenges of frequency stability. And for end customers, it’s providing an optimised, easy-to-use, user-centric energy management solution that saves money, as well as contributing to greater system security and flexibility.
For Amp X, the partnership also provides a broader strategic presence in the Australian National
Energy Market.
Dr. Irene Di Martino, Head of Amp X, said.
Amp X is excited to be partnering with ShineHub’s market- leading team in providing this critical solution to help manage Australia’s rapidly evolving energy transition, benefiting consumers and grid operators while providing grid services that can enhance system security.
“Leveraging a unique customer-centric technology to unlock and maximise behind-the- meter flexibility, Amp X will work with ShineHub to deliver a secure, reliable means of integrating large volumes of affordable, renewable energy into the National Energy Market.”
About ShineHub
With 63 staff located across New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland, ShineHub is a virtual power plant (VPP) platform provider active in energy retail, grid partnerships and frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) markets.
ShineHub developed the first cloud-based VPP in Australia and is an AusGrid VPP trial provider, an Australian Energy Market Operator FCAS VPP partner and a leading home battery system provider with key residential markets.
About Amp X
Amp X is a UK-registered subsidiary of Amp Energy, a global developer of energy transition infrastructure including wind, solar and battery storage assets. Amp X was created to deliver a disruptive grid edge digital platform allowing all forms of distributed generation and load to make a dynamic contribution in the relevant power markets, whether as an individual unit or as an aggregated group of assets, providing flexibility, resilience and system stability at the lowest possible price.
Amp X has developed a number of digital technology-based products including a proprietary smart transformer (Smart Tx – a next-generation smart transformer), as well as an in-home digital energy assistant called ALICE (Agent for Lifestyle-Based Intelligent Control of Energy), which optimises energy consumption for householders and enables them to participate in energy and flexibility markets.
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Amp X also has a Virtual Power Plant solution in commercial operation across a number of front-of-the-meter assets owned by Amp in North America.
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