Community Microgrids and Sustainable Energy Program (CMSEP) Mallacoota
Mondo delivered a microgrid solution to support the Victorian Government’s Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) and AusNet’s Community Microgrid and Sustainable Energy Program (CMSEP) in enhancing bushfire and energy resilience within the Mallacoota community.
Location: Mallacoota, Victoria
Timeframe: October 2021 to June 2024
Enabling Mallacoota to generate local, reliable, renewable energy
About the project
After the devastating 2019-20 fire season, the Victorian Government’s Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action (DEECA) and AusNet undertook a feasibility study to investigate how new energy infrastructure can provide support for communities and households affected by extreme weather events.
The program supports the increase of distributed energy supplies that can keep participating Mallacoota businesses and residents connected during electricity disruptions. The Ubi Plaptform is used to charge batteries when extreme weather events are forecast, providing increased resilience in the event of an outage.
Key deliverables
Stage 1 and 2
Essential services
- Solar panels
- Battery systems
- Mondo Ubi energy management systems
- Disel generator systems
Critical businesses
- Solar panels
- Battery systems
- Mondo Ubi energy management systems
Stage 3
Mallacoota residents
(regular energy users)
- Heat pump
- Reclaim Energy system
Mallacoota residents
(large energy users)
- Larger heat pump
- Reclaim Energy system
Benefits from our solution
Frequently Asked Questions
A resilient local electricity supply can provide electricity services even when the grid experiences an outage.
A microgrid is a small ‘subset’ of the electricity grid that provides energy generation and storage at a local level. The homes and businesses in a microgrid can have solar panels and batteries. To enable the microgrid, a device called a Mondo Ubi is installed. This microgrid platform is used to optimise and coordinate energy use.
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are local energy generation and storage technologies. These resources include solar panels, batteries, energy storage systems, generators, and managed electricity loads like water heaters.
Eligible essential services, critical businesses and residential properties received a solar system and battery designed to support their individual energy needs during an outage. In addition, eligible essential services providers received a backup generator.
