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    POSITIVE ENERGY

    Aug 31, 2017 5 minutes
    Edited by Alan Gray

    BATTERY PLAN TO TAKE RETAILERS ‘OUT OF BUSINESS’

    German battery storage developer, sonen, has described July’s near 20 per cent jump in the cost of grid power around Australia as “perfect” timing for the rollout of its new battery storage retail power plan.

    “It was perfect. We said: ‘Thank you very much’,” sonnen CEO Christoph Ostermann told journalists at the launch of the sonnenFlat offering in Sydney on 5 July. Sonnen aims to take Australia’s energy utilities “out of business” by replicating the sort of deal consumers can get from a mobile phone company, and with a quick pay-back.

    “That’s our goal, to take the traditional utility out of business. What we do is provide grid power free,” said sonnen CEO Christoph Ostermann. The deal means that a household with at

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