Supporting clean energy
We’re creating a sustainable, flexible, low carbon electricity grid for the future. Learn more about how we’re making it happen.
Looking to the future
The world is changing and so are we. We’re working to help deliver a clean energy future, where smart meters, batteries and solar systems, enable customers to generate, store and re-supply electricity into the grid.
Accelerating the clean-energy grid transition
We’re leveraging emerging technologies to adapt to the increase of renewable energy in the grid as well as cleaning up our own carbon footprint.
We're aiming to reach Net Zero by 2040 and enable others to decarbonise, as we accelerate our transition by implementing climate actions across our value chain, such as
- Enabling the customisation of energy use, through grid innovation and peer-to-peer trading
- Installing community batteries and stand-alone power systems
- Trialing microgrids to generate and distribute energy locally
- Implementing a roadmap to decarbonise our business and supply chain
- Continuing to integrate climate action into our decision-making
Numbers that count
Key targets that we’re out to achieve, on our road to net zero:
- 40% emissions reduction by 2030*
- Zero emissions fleet by 2040**
- Achieve an average solar customer curtailment below 1.6% by 2035, compared to 8.8% in a ‘do nothing’ scenario’ without interventions, enabling customers and communities to enjoy more of their local solar energy***
* From FY21 baseline, excluding network losses.
** Only includes electric vehicles and zero emission alternative fuels.
*** Curtailment of electricity is when power use is reduced or limited, to prevent overloading the grid or avoiding blackouts.
Distributed energy resources
Distributed Energy Resources (DER) are devices, like rooftop solar panels, batteries, smart appliances, microgrids and virtual power plants that generate, store or manage electricity as part of the grid.
With the rapid rise of solar and home batteries, households now play an active role in energy creation and distribution, enabling two-way power flows that the network was not originally designed for.
While DER introduces challenges in managing fluctuating renewable energy, it also offers significant benefits: lower bills, opportunities to earn by storing excess energy and greater control over usage. Well-managed DER can reduce costs and increase renewable integration, making it a key driver of the modern energy landscape.
Working on climate change solutions
We are actively investing in initiatives and teaming up with others, to enable our customers to use energy more efficiently and sustainably.
This includes the roll-out of community batteries, EV charging trials, enhanced metering infrastructure and advanced analytics.
We also use our industry influence to power together and promote innovation and scale climate solutions.
We’re working with EnergyLab and Climate Tech Partners to explore and help scale solutions that will help decarbonise the grid. Since 2020, we have connected with more than 40 start-ups from around the world to explore smart, clean-energy solutions.
This partnership has also given startups the chance to unlock their next wave of commercial opportunities whilst helping industry partners explore emerging technology to decarbonise the grid.
