GridWise and its project partner, farrierswier developed a framework and maturity assessment for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) that helps industry stakeholders better understand the breadth and nature of key ARENA and non-ARENA distributed energy resource (DER) projects. The project developed two deliverables:
- A functional framework that will map DER projects to functional areas (e.g. device standards, interoperability), helping to develop an understanding of DER projects, what they seek to achieve, their method and approach, and how they relate to each other.
- A maturity assessment that will help develop a common vision for each functional area, and will indicate how progressed each functional area is to that vision.
The scope of this work falls within technology integration projects, and does not cover broader market, regulatory or consumer projects.
Together, the functional framework and maturity assessment forms a baseline report, communicating a snapshot in time of key DER projects and maturity levels for each of the functional areas. It is intended that this report will be replicated in future to show progress over time.
The report is available on ARENA’s website at: State of DER Technology Integration – Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
