When are embedded networks suitable for strata solar systems?

The reason embedded networks are so important is that it gives you the flexibility to install this type of generation and retain the benefit. The benefit is lost at the point in time it connects to the grid. Embedded networks consolidate the grid connection to the point, and then everything internally is your own private network.

Having solar in an embedded network means that you can distribute that solar power within the embedded network without incurring any of the fees or charges we've talked about from the distributor. You can forego all of those kinds of impasse, which means you get the commercial benefit. It stays within the community.

The question then of whether or not that goes directly to the owners corporation or to the residence, electricity is a lot like water. It will flow wherever its first point of demand is, so it doesn't really matter where you install it, it's just going to go where it's wanted.

The correct metering infrastructure will let you actually determine exactly where that power went, and then you can do some kind of financial or data administrative reconciliation behind the scenes. We do this quite often. We've got a large development underway in Northwest Sydney. It will have one of the largest solar arrays of any residential community in the southern hemisphere. All the solar power goes directly into the common areas and then just goes into wherever it needs to and then we work it all out financially behind the scenes.

I wouldn't be too concerned about the infrastructure side, how it's actually installed. If it's within an embedded network and you have a provider that has the sophistication to do those calculations and to do the administration, then you can actually have the commercial benefit of that power delivered wherever you want it to be delivered.