Side-by-side synthesis of the 4 completed WA reference projects (Peel Business Park EDL7, Eglinton Village EDL10, Ocean Reef Marina EDL9, East Village Knutsford) + Thomas Friberg's Goldilocks Math + Our 6 Unannounced WA Stealth SPV Leads.
When a developer builds a 128–200 ha industrial park (Peel) or 1,270-home suburb (Eglinton), normal rules require 10 to 15 MVA of grid power. In a red substation zone (0.0 MVA headroom), Western Power demands $5M–$10M upfront (~30% of Stage 1 budget!) and 3–5 years.
Zenith's Move: Zenith installs an on-site Solar Farm + 2.5–6.0 MWh Community Battery and asks Western Power for a tiny ≤4.0 MVA 'Skinny Connection' (~70% smaller!) with zero solar export (avoiding Western Power's $750k / 3-year export study trap).
Thomas Friberg's Slide 4 (2 GWh industrial user paying $536,448/yr) shows why microgrids print money:
• 37.55% ($200.2k) is Variable Wholesale Energy
• 30.12% ($160.6k) is Western Power Network Wire Charges
• 16.78% ($89.5k) is AEMO Peak Capacity (IRCR) + 15.55% ($82.9k) Market/Enviro Fees (IRCR)
Because Zenith owns the internal wires (EDL) and discharges its battery during the 4pm–9pm summer peak, Zenith captures that 58.6% ($314,507/yr) network + capacity slice while still giving tenants a 20%–30% bill discount! (95% retail bills / 5% WEM IRCR credits).
Under the WA Electricity Industry Act 2004, it is illegal to run private power cables across a public council road without an ERAWA Electricity Distribution Licence (EDL).
• Rivals (Enpowered, EnergyTec, Change Energy): Do not hold an ERAWA EDL. They can only wire single-title / survey-strata sites with private common-property roads (like East Village Knutsford).
• Zenith Connected Energy: Holds 100% of WA's green-title subdivision EDLs (EDL7 Peel, EDL9 Ocean Reef, EDL10 Eglinton)!
| Lead Rank | Stealth ASIC SPV & Decision-Maker | Current Phase (Out of 10) | Constrained Substation | Cloned Reference Project | Why Zenith Wins by Calling Right Now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 GOLD STEALTH |
PROVIDENCE LIFESTYLE (BULLSBROOK) PTY LTD (ACN 698 900 248) & (CHAMPION LAKES) PTY LTD (ACN 690 381 189)
Bullsbrook: 09 Jun 2026 (4 mos ago, GST Active) | Champion Lakes: 26 Aug 2025 (GST Active)
Decision-Maker: Providence Lifestyle Group Pty Ltd (John Wood, MD & John Green, Ops Director —
(08) 6333 0300) |
Phase 1 → Phase 2 (Pre-Public Stealth Acquisition; NOT on website or press) | Bullsbrook → Muchea (MUC) 0.5 MVA Red Zone | Champion Lakes → Gosnells (G 515) 3.5 MW Active WP NSSS Tender! | Matches East Village (Single-Title Land-Lease Exemption) + Eglinton (Community BESS + Solar Sponge) | Providence builds every 200–360 home resort with a private solar + battery embedded network (bundling 8 kWh/day free), but currently self-funds Fronius hardware, had to hire R-Group ((08) 6555 1111) to fix its custom utility billing, and leaves $360k–$488k/MW/yr in AEMO WEM IRCR + Gosnells 3.5 MW NSSS payments on the table! |
| #2 GOLD STEALTH |
BMP PINJARRA PTY LTD (ACN 686 986 527, ABN 20 686 986 527)
12 May 2025 (GST Activated 12 May 2025 — HQ: South Yarra VIC / Perth WA)
Decision-Maker: Wolfdene Pty Ltd (Michael Goldthorp, MD —
(03) 9820 2277 / WA: 0455 065 256) + Blueways Group |
Phase 2 → Phase 3 (Structure Planning 1,000+ Lot Masterplanned Corridor in Pinjarra) | Pinjarra (PJR) Zone Substation — 0.0 MVA Remaining Thermal Headroom (Exact same substation as Peel EDL7!) | 100% Identical Clone of Eglinton Village (EDL10) + Peel Business Park (EDL7) on Pinjarra Substation | Wolfdene uses the exact same WA engineers as Cedar Woods at Eglinton (Cossill & Webley (08) 9422 5800 + CLE Town Planning (08) 9382 1233) and sits on the exact same 0.0 MVA Pinjarra substation that forced DevelopmentWA to hire Zenith for Peel Business Park (EDL7)! |
| #3 GOLD STEALTH |
CIRATERRA PTY LTD (ACN 688 643 170) & CIRATERRA HOLDINGS PTY LTD (ACN 688 637 878)
30 Jun 2025 (GST Active — Rebranded from Kemerton Silica Sand Pty Ltd)
Decision-Maker: Ciraterra / Game Changer Ventures (
info@ciraterra.com — Developing 200+ ha Kemerton Circular Industrial Park) |
Phase 3 → Phase 4 (Engineering Feasibility & Environmental Approvals inside Kemerton SIA Buffer) | Kemerton / Marriott Road (MRR) South-West Industrial Grid Corridor (<5 MVA Firm Distribution Headroom) | 100% Identical Clone of Peel Business Park (EDL7 — 200 ha Heavy C&I Agro/Circular Industrial Park) | At 200+ hectares of heavy circular-economy manufacturing, glass/mineral processing, and logistics, Ciraterra hits Thomas Friberg's exact 200 ha = 5 MW–10 MW / 20 GWh industrial Goldilocks rule right before Phase 5 Western Power headworks quotes lock in. |
| #4 GOLD STEALTH |
FORRESTDALE 2 DEV NOMINEE PTY LTD (ACN 699 885 737) & HENDERSON DEV NOMINEE PTY LTD (ACN 685 006 871)
Forrestdale 2: 02 Sep 2026 (6 weeks ago!) | Henderson: 05 Mar 2025 (Both GST Active)
Decision-Maker: Fife Capital Group (
(02) 9251 2777, Allan Fife) + WA Industrial Partner Wallace PM ((08) 9328 1909, Stuart Wallace) |
Phase 1 (Forrestdale 2 — 6 weeks old!) & Phase 2–3 (Henderson — Structure Plan Amendment with Allerding (08) 9382 3000) |
Forrestdale 2 → Byford (BYF) 0.0 MVA Red Zone | Henderson → Cockburn / Medina Defence Marine Corridor | Matches Peel Business Park (EDL7) / Multi-Lot C&I Industrial Estate Microgrid | Catching FORRESTDALE 2 DEV NOMINEE 6 weeks after incorporation lets Zenith reach Stuart Wallace (Wallace PM) before Fife Capital locks in expensive standard Western Power HV transformer upgrades in the 0.0 MVA Byford zone. |
| #5 GOLD STEALTH |
WEST MUNDIJONG INVESTMENTS PTY LTD (ACN 689 361 293, ABN 76 689 361 293)
23 Jul 2025 (GST Activated 23 Jul 2025 — WA 6107)
Decision-Maker: WA Syndicate developing inside the 490 ha West Mundijong Industrial Area (Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale)
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Phase 2 → Phase 3 (Structure Planning & Subdivision Engineering in West Mundijong Industrial Precinct) | Byford (BYF) Zone Substation — 0.0 MVA Remaining Thermal Headroom (Long 22kV Rural Feeder) | 100% Identical Clone of Peel Business Park (EDL7) on the neighbouring Byford 0.0 MVA Substation | West Mundijong sits immediately north of Peel Business Park in the exact same rural-industrial corridor with 0.0 MVA substation headroom at Byford—meaning their Phase 5 Western Power quote will be a carbon copy of Peel's $7M shock letter! |
Complete 10-Phase Forensic Breakdown: Who started it, who handed the baton to whom, what went wrong in the Western Power Q&A phase, how Zenith engineered the 'Skinny Connection', ERAWA licensing Q&A, EPC construction, and 25-year retail/VPP operations.
8–12 MVA Standard Grid Connection Request → Western Power demanded ~$7M+ in customer-funded upstream 22kV feeder & Pinjarra substation headworks (~30% of DevelopmentWA's entire Stage 1 civil development budget!) + 3–4 year wait.
Compressed by ~70% to a 1.2 MW → 4.0 MW CMD 'Skinny Connection' at a single 22kV Master Boundary Meter + 1.2 MW On-Site Ground Solar PV + 2.5 MWh Central Lithium-Ion BESS + Private 22kV/415V Underground Ring Main.
Imagine the WA Government wants to create a massive new industrial hub south of Perth near Mandurah so factories, food processors, and logistics warehouses can set up shop. They set aside 1,000 hectares of sandy farmland in Nambeelup and hand it to DevelopmentWA (the State's land developer) with a fixed budget to build Stage 1 (128 hectares). At this point, nobody is thinking about microgrids—they just secure the land and announce the 'Transform Peel' vision.
Internal Treasury & Cabinet business-case Q&A: How do we service 1,000 ha of rural land at Nambeelup with roads, water, sewer, and power without blowing the State's Stage 1 civil infrastructure budget?
Data Caught: ASIC New Company Incorporation API (data.gov.au) + ABR GST Activation Timestamp + Landgate Large Rural Parcel Settlement + State Budget Papers.
Ask on Call: To Developer Acquisitions Director: 'When you first lock up a 100-to-200 hectare industrial parcel in the Peel or South-West corridor, do you budget a standard per-hectare allowance for Western Power headworks, or do you assume grid capacity is available until your engineers lodge the ENAR?'
Before you can chop a giant 1,000-hectare farm into 66 individual factory lots, you have to hire a Town Planner to draw the map of where the public roads, drainage basins, and industrial lots will go. Crucially, because these factories will sit on standard 'Green-Title' lots separated by public roads owned by the Shire of Murray, any private power cable that crosses under those public roads will eventually require a rare government Electricity Distribution Licence (EDL).
Council & WAPC planning Q&A: Traffic access off Forrest Highway/Kwinana Freeway, bushfire setbacks, industrial buffer zones, and carving out Public Utility (PU) reserve lots.
Data Caught: SLIP WAPC Structure Plans GeoJSON (slip_structure_plans_dplh024.geojson) showing exact polygon geometry, hectare area, and 'Lodged / Under Assessment' status.
Ask on Call: To Town Planner (TBB / CLE): 'When you draw the Structure Plan for an industrial estate in Pinjarra or Mundijong, do you reserve a 2,500 sqm Public Utility lot for a central community battery and private HV switchroom up front, or do you have to amend the structure plan later when Western Power's quote comes back too high?'
Nambeelup sits in a flat, waterlogged Peel-Harvey catchment area. Before a single bulldozer can move dirt, environmental scientists have to prove to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) that clearing the land and draining rainwater won't pollute the Peel Inlet, and engineers have to arrange water and sewer pipes with the Water Corporation. These public environmental filings reveal the exact size and lot yield of the project two years before it opens.
DWER-120) and Native Vegetation Clearing applications (DWER-116), plus the Nambeelup Brook District Water Management Strategy (DWMS).200 ha industrial ≈ 5 MW peak demand / ~20 GWh/yr): Stage 1 (128 ha expanding to 200+ ha) sits dead-center in Zenith's 5 MW–10 MW C&I sweet spot.DWER-120) & Water Corporation
EPA & DWER Q&A on nutrient stripping, wetland buffers, black cockatoo foraging habitat, and engineered fill levels across the 128 ha Stage 1 footprint.
Data Caught: SLIP EPA Referred Proposals (slip_epa_referred_proposals_latest1000_dwer120.geojson) & Native Vegetation Clearing (dwer116.geojson) + WAPC Subdivision Form 1A.
Ask on Call: To Environmental / Development Manager: 'Once your EPA referral and Water Management Strategy are lodged, how many months typically elapse before your civil engineer submits the formal Western Power ENAR connection application?'
DevelopmentWA now hires major engineering firms (Stantec / GHD / Mott MacDonald) to design the actual underground power cables, transformers, and roads. Using Western Power's rulebook, the engineers calculate that 128+ hectares of food factories, cold-storage warehouses, and heavy fabricators will need 8 to 12 Megawatts (MVA) of grid electricity. They fill out Western Power's official application form (called an ENAR) and send it in, expecting a normal connection quote.
Initial engineering Q&A with Western Power over industrial diversity factors, cold-storage motor starting currents, and future Stage 2/3 load ramp trajectories.
Data Caught: Western Power Network Opportunity Map (NOM) Constraint API showing Pinjarra (PJR) at 0.0 MVA remaining capacity + Subdivision Engineering Tender notices.
Ask on Call: To Civil/HV Consultant (Stantec / Cossill & Webley / UPD): 'When you lodge an 8–12 MVA industrial ENAR on a rural 22kV feeder like Pinjarra or Byford, how long is Western Power taking right now to return the Feasibility Quote?'
This is the make-or-break crisis moment of the entire project. After months of back-and-forth emails and technical studies, Western Power drops a bombshell letter on DevelopmentWA's desk: the local Pinjarra Substation is completely full, and the long 22kV country power lines can't carry 8–12 MW to Nambeelup. If DevelopmentWA wants standard grid power, they must pay ~$7M+ out of their own pocket to upgrade Western Power's lines and substation—wiping out 30% of their entire Stage 1 budget and delaying the project by years!
PJR) Zone Substation sat over 15 km away via constrained, high-impedance 22kV rural overhead feeders with 0.0 MVA spare firm capacity.6–12 months of brutal technical Q&A with Western Power trying (and failing) to negotiate lower ADMD allowances, staged feeder upgrades, or alternative 22kV switching ties.
Data Caught: Our AI Engine predicts this exact collision 12–18 months BEFORE it happens by intersecting SLIP/ASIC land size (128+ ha = 5–10 MW) against Western Power's Pinjarra (0.0 MVA) constraint polygon.
Ask on Call: To Civil/HV Consultant or Developer PM: 'Which active industrial or residential estates on your desk right now just got hit with a Western Power headworks quote exceeding $3M–$5M or a multi-year substation delay?'
Refusing to lose 30% of their budget to Western Power, DevelopmentWA and their engineers ask: 'What if we only ask Western Power for a tiny trickle of power (a 1.2 MW to 4 MW "Skinny Connection" that fits on the existing country wire right now), and we get a private company to build a solar farm, a giant battery, and a private underground power network inside the estate at THEIR own cost?' DevelopmentWA runs a tender, and Zenith Energy (Peel Renewable Energy) wins it!
Peel Renewable Energy Pty Ltd, led commercially by Rob Breden & Thomas Friberg's Connected Energy team) won the tender with a radical electrical compression design:<10 MW AC inverter cap with zero/controlled export so Western Power waived the $750k / 3-year export study).Peel Renewable Energy Pty Ltd — Rob Breden & Thomas Friberg)
Intense commercial & technical Q&A during tender: negotiating the 25-year concession term, peppercorn land lease for the solar/BESS compound, mandatory title covenants so every lot buyer must connect to Peel Renewable Energy, and guaranteeing 99.98% industrial reliability.
Data Caught: Tenderlink / VendorPanel / WA Tenders notices + ASIC registration of PEEL RENEWABLE ENERGY PTY LTD (ACN 639 385 065 on 27 Feb 2020).
Ask on Call: To Developer Project Director: 'If Zenith Connected Energy could compress your Western Power grid connection by 70% down to a ≤4 MW skinny connection and fund the solar, battery, and embedded network on a turnkey BOO basis, how much headworks CapEx would that save Stage 1?'
Because Peel Business Park's private power cables have to run underneath public roads owned by the Shire of Murray to reach 66+ separate Green-Title factory lots, Zenith cannot legally turn the power on without becoming an official licensed power utility—just like Western Power and Synergy! So Zenith incorporates 'Peel Renewable Energy Pty Ltd' and goes through an 8-month regulatory interrogation and 21-day public Q&A with the Economic Regulation Authority (ERAWA) to win Licence EDL7 and ERL28.
PEEL RENEWABLE ENERGY PTY LTD (ACN 639 385 065) and lodged formal applications with the Economic Regulation Authority of WA (ERAWA) for an Electricity Distribution Licence (EDL7) and Electricity Retail Licence (ERL28).EDL7 and ERL28—making Peel Renewable Energy the first private green-title industrial microgrid utility in Australia.ERAWA 21-day public Q&A + EnergySafety WA technical review of the Asset Management System (AMS), metering code compliance, and Retailer of Last Resort (RoLR) ring-fencing.
Data Caught: ERAWA Active Licences & Public Consultation Register (erawa.com.au) + ASIC Registry (ACN 639 385 065).
Ask on Call: To Rival Embedded Network Operators (Enpowered / Clear Energy): 'When a green-title estate crosses public Crown roads and requires a full ERAWA EDL distribution licence like Peel EDL7, do you partner with an EDL holder like Zenith or only bid on single-title strata sites?'
While civil contractor RJ Vincent digs the road trenches for water pipes and asphalt, Zenith's construction contractor (Sunrise Energy Group) drops private 22kV underground power cables into the exact same trenches, builds a 1.2 MW solar farm next to the estate, and installs a 2.5 MWh giant battery using Fimer inverters. Before Western Power lets them flip the switch, Western Power's safety engineers come out to test the 'reverse-power relays' to make sure the microgrid never accidentally pushes unauthorized solar power back into Pinjarra's full grid.
32R) to guarantee zero unauthorized export into the constrained Pinjarra feeder.Technical Protection Relay Q&A with Western Power: proving millisecond trip times on reverse power flow, anti-islanding protection, SCADA telemetry, and harmonic distortion compliance.
Data Caught: DevelopmentWA Construction Updates + Sunrise Energy Group / Fimer EPC case study publications + Western Power energizing queue.
Ask on Call: To EPC / HV Commissioning Lead: 'During Western Power witness testing on a constrained 22kV feeder, what is the biggest hold-up on zero-export relay sign-off, and how much time does keeping inverters under 10 MW AC save?'
In December 2020, Western Power flips the switch on the single boundary meter at the entrance to Peel Business Park! Because Zenith (Peel Renewable Energy) is now an official licensed utility (EDL7), Zenith signs the official government 'Power Servicing Clearance Letter' for the WA Planning Commission. That single piece of paper lets DevelopmentWA immediately issue Landgate property titles for all 66 Stage 1 lots and collect tens of millions of dollars from factory buyers!
Peel Renewable Energy (EDL7) is the licensed distributor inside the estate, Zenith issued the servicing clearance directly—bypassing Western Power's notorious 6-to-9 month multi-stage handover bottleneck!Final WAPC clearance verification ensuring every individual green-title lot has a tested underground LV/HV pillar connection and registered restrictive covenant.
Data Caught: Landgate Survey Plan Deposit & Title Creation + ERAWA Annual Compliance Report (EDL7 operational commencement).
Ask on Call: To Developer Project Director: 'How many months earlier were you able to clear WAPC subdivision power conditions and settle Stage 1 lot titles by having Zenith issue the EDL clearance versus waiting in Western Power's standard handover queue?'
How does Zenith actually run the microgrid and make money for the next 25 years? Every factory in Peel Business Park gets their monthly power bill from Peel Renewable Energy at a 30% discount compared to normal Synergy prices. Why can Zenith charge 30% less and still make a huge profit? Because on a normal power bill (as Thomas Friberg's Slide 4 showed), 58.6% of the bill is Western Power wire fees and AEMO peak capacity charges! By generating solar on-site, using the 2.5 MWh battery during the 4pm–9pm summer peak so the estate barely touches the Western Power grid, and owning the internal wires, Zenith keeps that 58.6% margin while expanding solar and batteries as new factories move in!
2 GWh Industrial Bill = $536,448.38/yr) proves, a standard grid bill is 37.55% Variable Energy ($200.2k), 30.12% Western Power Network ($160.6k), 16.78% AEMO Peak Capacity/IRCR ($89.5k), 11.16% Market Fees ($59.5k), and 4.39% Enviro ($23.4k). Inside Peel Business Park, Zenith supplies ~50%+ of total energy from on-site solar + BESS, pays Western Power only for the tiny 1.2–4.0 MW skinny connection at the boundary, and bills tenants directly via smart sub-meters at a ~30% discount.IRCR & Peak Shaving): During AEMO's 12 Peak SWIS Trading Intervals (4:00 PM – 9:00 PM on the 4 hottest summer days, Dec–Mar), Zenith's 24/7 Control Room discharges the 2.5 MWh BESS so boundary import drops near zero—slashing/monetizing AEMO Individual Reserve Capacity Requirement (IRCR) charges worth $360,700 to $488,500 per MW per year!ERL28) & 24/7 Remote VPP Control Room + Thomas Friberg (Phase 2 Expansion)
Ongoing operational Q&A: onboarding new industrial tenants, sizing customs connection pillars for high-load factories (like Doral's electric kilns), and annual ERAWA performance reporting.
Data Caught: ERAWA Annual Retail & Distribution Performance Reports (EDL7 / ERL28) + AEMO WEM Reserve Capacity Register.
Ask on Call: To Zenith / Industrial Estate Manager: 'As Stage 2 and 3 industrial tenants move in with heavy process loads, at what load threshold do you trigger the next modular expansion of the on-site solar and central BESS?'
Complete 10-Phase Forensic Breakdown: Who started it, who handed the baton to whom, what went wrong in the Western Power Q&A phase, how Zenith engineered the 'Skinny Connection', ERAWA licensing Q&A, EPC construction, and 25-year retail/VPP operations.
10–15 MVA Standard Residential Estate Demand (1,270–1,600 homes × ~4.7–5.5 kVA ADMD) → Multi-million-dollar Western Power upstream 22kV feeder/substation headworks charge + multi-year connection queue delay.
Compressed by ~70% to a ≤4.0 MVA 'Skinny Connection' at a single 22kV boundary meter + 6.0 MWh Central Community Battery (BESS) + Private Underground HV/LV Network + Mandatory Rooftop Solar / Heat Pump / EV VPP orchestration.
(08) 9382 1233 & RobertsDay (Hatch)(08) 9422 5800 (Civil) & Underground Power Development (UPD) (08) 9381 3688 (HV)Cedar Woods (one of Australia's biggest residential land developers) buys an 86-hectare coastal paddock in Eglinton, right next to where the government is building the new Metronet Eglinton Train Station. They plan to build 1,270 family homes, a shopping village, and a primary school. At this earliest stage, they set up their project company, register for GST to claim back 10% on the land purchase, and brief their town planners.
Internal investment committee Q&A: staging 1,270 lots to match the Metronet station opening date while managing northern corridor infrastructure headworks.
Data Caught: ASIC SPV Registration + ABR GST Activation + ASX Acquisition Announcement + Landgate Title Transfer.
Ask on Call: To Cedar Woods / Residential Developer: 'When evaluating a 75–100 ha masterplanned parcel in a growth corridor like Eglinton, Bullsbrook, or Pinjarra, how much per lot do you initially plug into your feaso for Western Power headworks?'
Cedar Woods hires CLE Town Planning + Design to draw up the street grid for 1,270 separate house blocks, parks, and roads. Because everyday Australian homebuyers want 'Green-Title' freestanding homes on public streets maintained by the local council (City of Wanneroo), every power cable in the estate will have to cross public roads—which means if they ever use a private microgrid, that provider MUST hold an ERAWA EDL distribution licence.
SLIP DPLH-024).EDL licensee (Zenith Connected Energy) can.DPLH-024)Council & WAPC Q&A on transit-oriented densities around Eglinton Train Station, Public Open Space (POS) allocations, and acoustic treatments along Marmion Avenue / rail corridor.
Data Caught: SLIP WAPC Structure Plans (slip_structure_plans_dplh024.geojson) + City of Wanneroo Council Minutes.
Ask on Call: To CLE Town Planning (08) 9382 1233: 'After working on Eglinton Village with Cedar Woods, are you now building dedicated community battery reserve lots into your initial Structure Plans for other estates in constrained corridors?'
Before Cedar Woods can clear the coastal scrub and start earthworks for Stage 1, their environmental consultants (Emerge Associates) have to get clearance from the EPA and Federal environmental authorities (protecting Carnaby's Black Cockatoo habitat), while lodging the formal WAPC Subdivision Application (Form 1A). This locks in the Stage 1 civil construction schedule.
Form 1A), receiving conditional subdivision approval subject to standard Western Power and Water Corporation servicing clearances.DWER-120) & WAPC Subdivision Branch
EPA & Federal EPBC Q&A regarding coastal heath clearing offsets and karst/limestone geotechnical earthworks conditions.
Data Caught: SLIP EPA Referrals (dwer120.geojson) + Clearing Permits (dwer116.geojson) + WAPC Conditional Subdivision Approval.
Ask on Call: To Environmental / Planning Lead: 'Once conditional subdivision approval drops from WAPC, how much pressure is on the engineering team to lock in the Western Power servicing agreement so Stage 1 civil tenders aren't delayed?'
Cedar Woods hands the engineering baton to WA's powerhouse subdivision duo: Cossill & Webley (civil engineers) and Underground Power Development / UPD (specialist underground power engineers). UPD calculates that 1,270+ modern all-electric homes plus a shopping centre and school will demand ~10 to 15 MVA of electricity. UPD submits the official ENAR connection request to Western Power.
(08) 9422 5800 as lead civil engineer and Underground Power Development (UPD) (08) 9381 3688 as specialist HV/LV electrical designer.ENAR) for the multi-stage Eglinton Village subdivision.Technical Q&A with Western Power over north-west corridor feeder loading (Alkimos/Yanchep/Pinjar 22kV network) where half a dozen competing estates were simultaneously requesting power.
Data Caught: Western Power Network Opportunity Map showing northern corridor feeder congestion + Civil engineering tender documents naming C&W and UPD.
Ask on Call: To Underground Power Development (UPD) (08) 9381 3688: 'You guys designed the underground power transition at Eglinton Village—when you submit a 10–15 MVA residential ENAR today, which substations are giving you the worst headworks shocks?'
Western Power comes back to UPD and Cedar Woods with bad news: because the entire Alkimos–Eglinton–Yanchep coastal strip is booming at the same time (plus the new Metronet electric train line!), the existing 22kV power lines cannot supply 10–15 MVA to Eglinton Village. Unless Cedar Woods pays millions of dollars upfront for upstream feeder/substation upgrades and waits in a multi-year queue, they won't have enough power for their later stages!
Months of Q&A between UPD, C&W, and Western Power exploring whether staging the subdivision could defer the upstream HV feeder trigger—discovering that Stage 2/3 would hit a hard wall.
Data Caught: Our AI catches this exact pattern at Phase 1–3 by flagging every >75 ha / >1,000-lot residential SPV or structure plan inside a <5 MVA substation catchment.
Ask on Call: To Cossill & Webley (08) 9422 5800: 'When Western Power comes back with a multi-million-dollar feeder upgrade quote on a 1,000-lot estate like Eglinton, at what dollar per lot does the developer tell you to call Zenith for a microgrid alternative?'
Instead of paying Western Power millions for new poles and wires, Cedar Woods and UPD bring in Thomas Friberg and Rob Breden at Zenith Connected Energy. Together, they design a brilliant solution: Zenith will build a private underground power network and install a massive 6.0 MWh Community Battery inside Eglinton Village at Zenith's own expense! Because the battery and rooftop solar supply the evening peak, the entire 1,270-home estate only needs a tiny ≤4.0 MVA 'Skinny Connection' from Western Power—saving millions in headworks and giving every resident 20%–25% cheaper electricity!
Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd) on a turnkey Build-Own-Operate (BOO) community energy network—the exact case study Thomas Friberg walked you through in your interview (recording-2026-10-16-06-44-04.txt lines 409–488)!Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd — Rob Breden & Thomas Friberg)
Commercial & legal Q&A: structuring the Restrictive Covenants on every green-title lot sale contract, designing the Builder Rebate for 6 kW solar + smart inverter integration, and revising UPD's Western Power ENAR down to a single ≤4 MVA boundary connection.
Data Caught: ASIC incorporation of EGLINTON VILLAGE ENERGY PTY LTD + Cedar Woods / Zenith joint project announcement.
Ask on Call: To Residential Developer (Wolfdene / BMP Pinjarra): 'Cedar Woods used Zenith at Eglinton Village to compress a 1,270-home grid connection from 15 MVA down to 4 MVA while giving buyers 20–25% off their power bills—have you looked at that exact BOO structure for Pinjarra?'
Just like Peel Business Park, because Eglinton Village is a 1,270-lot Green-Title housing estate where the underground wires cross public council roads, Zenith has to apply to the WA regulator (ERAWA) for an official Electricity Distribution Licence (EDL10) and Retail Licence (ERL33). ERAWA runs a 21-day public Q&A period checking consumer protections for families and life-support customers, then grants Zenith the licence!
Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd lodged applications with ERAWA for Electricity Distribution Licence EDL10 and Electricity Retail Licence ERL33.EDL10 and ERL33, cementing Zenith's 100% private monopoly over green-title subdivision distribution licences in Western Australia (EDL7 Peel, EDL9 Ocean Reef, EDL10 Eglinton).EDL10 (Distribution) and ERL33 (Retail)Regulatory Q&A with ERAWA over residential customer churn rights, price-cap guarantees (pegged 20–25% below Synergy's regulated A1 tariff), and smart meter privacy.
Data Caught: ERAWA Licence Register (EDL10 & ERL33 geographic map PDFs showing exact Eglinton lot boundaries).
Ask on Call: To Regulatory / Project Lead: 'Because Zenith already has ERAWA-approved templates from EDL7, EDL9, and EDL10, how fast can you push a new green-title subdivision licence through the 21-day ERAWA consultation now?'
As the bulldozers finish the Stage 1 roads next to the new Eglinton Train Station, UPD and the civil contractors lay Zenith's private underground HV and LV power cables into the street trenches, put green power domes on the front corner of every house block, and install the central Community Battery and master switchroom. Western Power tests the boundary relays to verify the estate can never export uncontrolled solar back into the main grid.
32R reverse-power / zero-export control and fault protection) so the microgrid safely absorbs midday rooftop solar inside the community battery without back-feeding Western Power's feeder.Technical Q&A between UPD, Zenith, and Western Power over boundary fault protection grading and dynamic solar curtailment setpoints.
Data Caught: City of Wanneroo engineering Subdivision Works approvals + Cedar Woods Eglinton construction updates.
Ask on Call: To UPD / Civil Superintendent: 'Does installing a private EDL underground network in common trenches change anything for the civil contractor on site compared to a standard Western Power UDS handover, or is the physical cable-laying identical?'
Western Power energizes the single boundary connection! Zenith (Eglinton Village Energy EDL10) signs off the WAPC Underground Power Clearance condition so Cedar Woods can immediately get Landgate titles for Stage 1 lots, collect millions in settlement cash from homebuyers, and switch on the power for the 23-home Display Village and first families moving in!
Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd (EDL10) issued the WAPC Subdivision Underground Power Clearance letters for Stage 1 lots—allowing Cedar Woods to register deposited plans at Landgate and settle presold residential lots without Western Power handover delays.Builder onboarding Q&A: educating WA volume homebuilders (ABN Group, BGC, Summit, JWH) on connecting temporary builder power and wiring the mandatory rooftop solar + smart meter.
Data Caught: Landgate Deposited Plan Title Registrations + Eglinton Village Display Village launch.
Ask on Call: To Residential Development Manager: 'How did the volume homebuilders react to the Eglinton Village Energy connection process and solar design guidelines during the Display Village build?'
Here is how Eglinton Village runs day-to-day for the next 25 years: During the sunny middle of the day, hundreds of house roofs generate cheap solar power that soaks into Zenith's 6 MWh community battery. Then, between 4pm and 9pm when families come home, turn on the air-con, cook dinner, and plug in their EVs, the community battery discharges to power the whole suburb! Residents get 20–25% cheaper power bills from Eglinton Village Energy, and Zenith makes 95% of its revenue from those bills plus 5% from AEMO summer peak capacity credits!
Eglinton Village Energy (ERL33) bills all 1,270 homes and town-centre businesses directly at 20%–25% below Synergy's regulated tariff while capturing the unbundled network/capacity spread inside the private wire network.$360,700–$488,500/MW/yr in WEM IRCR capacity credits.ERL33) Retail Customer Team & Zenith 24/7 VPP Control Room
Ongoing homeowner & builder Q&A: onboarding new stages (Stages 4–10), integrating Wi-Fi/cloud inverter telemetry into Zenith's VPP, and annual ERAWA retail reporting.
Data Caught: ERAWA EDL10 / ERL33 Annual Performance Reports + Cedar Woods stage release maps.
Ask on Call: To Thomas Friberg / Zenith Operations: 'At Eglinton Village, what percentage of the evening peak reduction comes from the central 6 MWh community battery versus orchestrating the behind-the-meter residential solar, heat pumps, and home batteries?'
Complete 10-Phase Forensic Breakdown: Who started it, who handed the baton to whom, what went wrong in the Western Power Q&A phase, how Zenith engineered the 'Skinny Connection', ERAWA licensing Q&A, EPC construction, and 25-year retail/VPP operations.
10+ MVA Concentrated Coastal Precinct Demand (1,000+ high-spec homes/apartments + hospitality/hotel/marina chillers at the very end of the Mullaloo 22kV coastal radial feeders) → Multi-million-dollar upstream feeder trenches through built-up suburbs + multi-year delay.
Compressed to a ≤4.0 MVA 'Skinny Connection' at a single 22kV boundary point + 5.5 MW Precinct/Rooftop Solar PV + 4.6 MWh Central Community BESS + Private Underground Microgrid across all Green-Title & Mixed-Use lots.
5.5 MW Solar + 4.6 MWh BESS)(08) 9226 4276 & Aspects Studios / COX(08) 6222 7000, GHD & MP Rogers (Coastal/Marine)The WA State Government and City of Joondalup commit over $120M–$270M to turn an old boat ramp at Ocean Reef into a world-class coastal marina village with 1,000+ luxury homes and apartments, hotels, restaurants, and yacht clubs. DevelopmentWA takes charge of delivering the project.
State Treasury & Joondalup Q&A on balancing massive marine breakwater costs against landside utility servicing budgets.
Data Caught: State Budget Papers + DevelopmentWA Project Pipeline + Landgate Crown Reserve proclamations.
Ask on Call: To Mixed-Use Precinct Director: 'When you take on a high-density coastal or infill precinct with 1,000+ dwellings and commercial hospitality, how early do you check the local Zone Substation capacity?'
Because Ocean Reef Marina crosses both coastal land and ocean seabed, town planners at Taylor Burrell Barnett (TBB) use a special state planning tool called an 'Improvement Scheme' to lock in the street layout for green-title houses, apartment blocks, and commercial boardwalks. Because the internal streets will be public roads, any private power network wiring the precinct will legally require an ERAWA EDL distribution licence.
(08) 9226 4276 prepared the Ocean Reef Marina Improvement Scheme No. 1 and Design Guidelines with DevelopmentWA and WAPC.EDL7) and Eglinton (EDL10), crossing public roads between green-title and built-form lots triggered the statutory requirement for an ERAWA EDL distribution licence.DPLH-024)WAPC & community Q&A over building heights, coastal view corridors, traffic access onto Boat Harbour Quays / Hodges Drive, and utility reserve placement.
Data Caught: SLIP Structure Plans & Improvement Schemes (dplh024.geojson) + WAPC Gazettal Notices.
Ask on Call: To Taylor Burrell Barnett (TBB) (08) 9226 4276: 'Having planned both Peel Business Park and Ocean Reef Marina, how do you size and position the central battery compound in a tight urban/coastal masterplan so it doesn't eat into prime waterfront land?'
Environmental consultants complete one of WA's toughest EPA reviews (checking marine seagrass, abalone habitats, and coastal bushland) so contractors Georgiou and WA Limestone can start dumping rock for the two giant ocean breakwaters. Meanwhile, engineers plan the landside water, sewer, and power pipes.
DWER-120 / DWER-116) cleared the path for marine breakwater construction (2021–2023) by Georgiou Group & WA Limestone.EPA marine water quality monitoring Q&A and staging landside civil reclamation behind the breakwater.
Data Caught: EPA Ministerial Statements (DWER-120) + DevelopmentWA Breakwater Civil Works tenders.
Ask on Call: To Precinct Delivery Manager: 'While heavy marine or earthworks contractors are on site building the trunk infrastructure, what is the latest month you can lock in your microgrid partner before landside road trenching starts?'
Engineering consultants (Stantec / GHD) calculate how much power 1,000+ luxury coastal homes, high-rise apartments, hotels, restaurants, and marina facilities will pull on a hot summer evening—well over 10 MVA! They submit the official ENAR connection request to Western Power.
MLO) 22kV distribution network.Technical load-modelling Q&A over peak summer coincidence between commercial restaurant/hotel air-conditioning and residential evening EV/air-con peaks.
Data Caught: Western Power Network Opportunity Map (Mullaloo MLO substation data) + Engineering tender awards.
Ask on Call: To Stantec (08) 6222 7000: 'When modelling a mixed-use precinct like Ocean Reef Marina where commercial hospitality and 1,000+ dwellings overlap on peak demand, how much battery storage is needed to shave the peak below 4 MVA?'
Western Power's engineers deliver the bad news: Ocean Reef sits at the very end of the existing 22kV suburban power lines running out from Mullaloo Substation through established 1980s neighbourhoods. Those lines cannot handle a sudden 10+ MVA jump without tearing up kilometres of suburban streets to lay new high-voltage feeder cables back to Mullaloo Substation at a cost of millions of dollars and years of disruption!
MLO) Zone Substation.Technical Q&A with Western Power confirming that standard connections could neither support the 10+ MVA peak import nor allow 5.5 MW of precinct solar export.
Data Caught: Western Power NOM Feeder & Substation Constraint layers + DevelopmentWA Microgrid EOI preparation.
Ask on Call: To Electrical Consultant: 'How often do coastal or infill developments at the end of radial 22kV feeders get hit with multimillion-dollar trenching quotes back to the nearest Zone Substation?'
5.5 MW Solar + 4.6 MWh BESS)Having seen how well Zenith's microgrid worked at Peel Business Park, DevelopmentWA puts the Ocean Reef Marina microgrid out to tender on a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) basis. Zenith Connected Energy (Ocean Reef Renewable Energy Pty Ltd) wins the contract! They shrink the Western Power connection down to a ≤4 MVA 'Skinny Connection' and commit to building 5.5 MW of solar + a 4.6 MWh central community battery at zero capital cost to the government.
Ocean Reef Renewable Energy Pty Ltd) won the contract, replicating and scaling up the Peel (EDL7) blueprint:<10 MW AC zero-export configuration).Ocean Reef Renewable Energy Pty Ltd — Rob Breden & Thomas Friberg)
Commercial & architectural Q&A: integrating a 4.6 MWh central BESS enclosure into a flagship coastal architectural precinct (acoustic attenuation, coastal salt-spray corrosion rating, and aesthetic screening) and coordinating apartment parent/child embedded sub-metering.
Data Caught: WA Tenders / DevelopmentWA Contract Award Notice + ASIC registration of OCEAN REEF RENEWABLE ENERGY PTY LTD.
Ask on Call: To Precinct Developer: 'At Ocean Reef Marina, how did Zenith handle the architectural screening and acoustic design of the 4.6 MWh community battery so it blended into a premium coastal residential precinct?'
Because Ocean Reef Marina has green-title houses, apartment blocks, and commercial shops separated by public roads, Zenith applies to the WA regulator (ERAWA) for Electricity Distribution Licence EDL9. After the mandatory 21-day public Q&A period, ERAWA grants EDL9 to Ocean Reef Renewable Energy Pty Ltd.
Ocean Reef Renewable Energy Pty Ltd applied to ERAWA for Electricity Distribution Licence EDL9 covering the Ocean Reef Marina Improvement Scheme boundary.EDL9 in 2023—making Zenith 3-for-3 on WA green-title microgrid distribution licences (EDL7, EDL9, EDL10).EDL9ERAWA technical Q&A on servicing mixed green-title residential lots AND multi-tier strata apartment buildings inside a single EDL9 distribution boundary.
Data Caught: ERAWA Licence Register (EDL9 decision notice & map PDF).
Ask on Call: To Apartment / Mixed-Use Developer: 'Did you know Zenith's EDL9 licence at Ocean Reef Marina allows a single microgrid to wire both green-title houses across public roads AND multi-storey apartment buildings under one unified community battery?'
Once the ocean breakwaters are finished, civil contractor RJ Vincent moves in to build the internal streets, sewer, water, and boardwalks for Stage 1. In the exact same road trenches, Zenith's electrical crews lay the private underground microgrid cables, install the central BESS switchroom, and run Western Power protection relay tests at the boundary meter.
Engineering Q&A on marine-grade corrosion protection (C5-M coastal rating) for transformers/battery enclosures and Western Power reverse-power relay grading.
Data Caught: DevelopmentWA Landside Civil Contract awards (RJ Vincent) + site progress bulletins.
Ask on Call: To Civil Contractor (RJ Vincent): 'Having trenched the underground microgrids at both Peel Business Park and Ocean Reef Marina, how smooth is coordinating trench handovers with Zenith compared to Western Power?'
The single 22kV boundary connection is energized, Zenith (EDL9) signs off the WAPC Underground Power Clearance condition for Stage 1 lots, Landgate issues the first coastal land titles, and builders begin constructing the first luxury homes, apartments, and marine commercial buildings!
Ocean Reef Renewable Energy Pty Ltd (EDL9) cleared the WAPC subdivision underground power servicing condition for Stage 1 land releases.EDL9) & Western Power
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WAPC / Landgate → DevelopmentWA Sales Settlements → Builders & Precinct Developers
Onboarding architects and builders for the first coastal home and apartment lots onto the microgrid technical connection standards.
Data Caught: Landgate Deposited Plan registrations + DevelopmentWA Stage 1 lot release announcements.
Ask on Call: To DevelopmentWA Sales / Delivery Lead: 'How strongly did buyers and apartment developers respond to the 100% renewable microgrid and discounted energy tariffs during the Stage 1 Ocean Reef lot releases?'
Why is a mixed-use marina village like Ocean Reef even more profitable to run than a pure housing estate? Because cafés, shops, boat yards, and offices use power during the daytime when the 5.5 MW of solar panels are cranking, while the 1,000+ homes and apartments use power in the evening when the 4.6 MWh battery discharges! Zenith bills every home, apartment, and restaurant at a discount below Synergy (95% of revenue) while shaving the summer 4pm–9pm peak to capture AEMO capacity credits (5% of revenue).
IRCR at $360,700–$488,500/MW/yr) peak-shaving during the 12 summer SWIS peak intervals + potential Western Power Network Support (NSSS) services on the Mullaloo feeder.Coordinating multi-tier embedded metering inside strata apartment towers alongside green-title residential smart meters.
Data Caught: ERAWA EDL9 Annual Compliance & Performance Reports.
Ask on Call: To Zenith Commercial Team: 'How much does combining 12,000 sqm of daytime hospitality/commercial load with 1,000+ residential dwellings improve battery utilization compared to a residential-only estate?'
Complete 10-Phase Forensic Breakdown: Who started it, who handed the baton to whom, what went wrong in the Western Power Q&A phase, how Zenith engineered the 'Skinny Connection', ERAWA licensing Q&A, EPC construction, and 25-year retail/VPP operations.
FRE) Zone Substation — Urban Infill 22kV FeederStandard 36-Lot Subdivision Connection — Would have required standard Western Power pillar connections to every street lot with strict inverter export limits and no shared community battery trading.
Structured as a 36-lot Survey-Strata scheme behind a single Master Boundary Meter + 670 kWh Shared Community Battery (BESS) + ~200 kW Rooftop Solar PV + Peer-to-Peer (P2P) blockchain energy trading platform (Power Ledger).
Nest Energy / Change Energy) Lodges Single Master Connection Request(08) 9433 3721 + CODA Studio (Urbis) + Landgate Survey-StrataDevelopmentWA takes an old 1.5-hectare government depot on Montreal Street in Fremantle and decides to build a 36-townhouse 'living laboratory' to test whether neighbours can share a community battery and trade rooftop solar with each other. Because 36 townhouses only use a tiny amount of power (meaning a private company like Zenith could never recover the cost of building a microgrid there from power bills alone), DevelopmentWA applies for a federal government ARENA grant to pay for the battery!
ARENA grant assessment Q&A: proving how the project would publish open-source data on residential battery sharing, water sensitive urban design, and EV charging.
Data Caught: ARENA Funded Projects Register + DevelopmentWA Knutsford announcements.
Ask on Call: To Infill / Strata Developer: 'How many dwellings or how many Megawatt-hours of load do you need before a microgrid provider will fund the battery on their own balance sheet (BOO) without needing an ARENA grant or developer CapEx?'
Here is the most important legal secret in WA microgrids: If DevelopmentWA had made the internal street at East Village a normal public road owned by the City of Fremantle, it would have been ILLEGAL to run private battery wires across that road without spending 9 months getting an ERAWA EDL licence! So their planners and surveyors cleverly structured all 36 townhouses as a 'Survey-Strata' scheme where the internal road is privately owned 'Common Property' shared by the 36 owners. Because the wires never cross a public Crown road, they didn't need an ERAWA EDL licence!
EDL distribution licence!Legal & Strata Q&A: writing the Strata Company by-laws so the Strata Council owns/maintains the private internal road and microgrid cables after DevelopmentWA exits.
Data Caught: WAPC Survey-Strata Subdivision Application + City of Fremantle Development Assessment Panel minutes.
Ask on Call: To Town Planner / Land-Lease Developer (Providence Lifestyle): 'Because your resorts sit on a single parent title with private internal roads rather than public council roads, you operate under a WA Licence Exemption—have you ever compared self-managing that exempted network against handing it over to a licensed BOO operator like Zenith?'
Because the site used to be an old council/industrial depot, environmental engineers clean up the soil while Josh Byrne & Associates design an integrated groundwater and rainwater recycling system alongside the microgrid layout.
Josh Byrne & Associates) + Water Corporation
Water Corporation & Department of Health Q&A on dual-reticulated non-potable water piping clearances relative to underground power trenches.
Data Caught: DWER Contaminated Sites Database + City of Fremantle Building/Civil permits.
Ask on Call: To Sustainability Consultant (Josh Byrne & Associates): 'When developers hire you to design net-zero estates today, who is the first commercial microgrid operator you bring to the table when there's no ARENA grant available?'
Nest Energy / Change Energy) Lodges Single Master Connection RequestInstead of asking Western Power for 36 separate house meters on the street, specialist electrical engineers at Nest Energy (now Change Energy) apply to Western Power for ONE single commercial master connection (Parent NMI) at the Montreal Street boundary, with a private microgrid behind it.
FRE) distribution feeder.Technical Q&A with Western Power on bidirectional battery inverter protection and how 36×6.6 kW (~240 kW) of rooftop solar would be controlled behind a single master meter.
Data Caught: Western Power Embedded Generation Connection Queue.
Ask on Call: To Change Energy (08) 9284 2888: 'Having engineered East Village at Knutsford and dozens of WA embedded networks, what is the biggest technical bottleneck you see right now when connecting 1–5 MW C&I or strata microgrids to Western Power?'
Even on a 36-lot strata site, Western Power and Synergy's rules create a headache: Synergy has a legal monopoly on selling power to small homes in the SWIS (the '50 MWh franchise threshold'), and Western Power caps how much solar can export onto Montreal Street. So the project team has to negotiate a special structure where Synergy is the retailer at the front boundary gate, and Power Ledger's software tracks peer-to-peer solar trading between neighbours inside the gate!
<50 MWh/year (like houses) are 'non-contestable' franchise customers of Synergy unless supplied under an ERAWA Retail Licence (ERL, like Zenith holds at Peel ERL28 and Eglinton ERL33) or a registered strata on-selling exemption.ERL utility, DevelopmentWA negotiated with Synergy to act as the parent boundary retailer and Power Ledger to provide the blockchain Peer-to-Peer (P2P) sub-meter billing settlement software for the Strata Company.Months of Q&A with Synergy and Western Power over how rooftop solar exported from Lot 1 into the 670 kWh strata battery on Common Property would be tariffed when consumed by Lot 2.
Data Caught: ARENA Knowledge Sharing Reports on East Village regulatory hurdles.
Ask on Call: To Embedded Network Billing Provider (R-Group / Power Ledger / EnergyTec): 'How much simpler is billing a greenfield microgrid when the operator holds its own ERAWA Retail Licence (ERL) versus trying to run strata on-selling exemptions behind a Synergy parent meter?'
Using the DevelopmentWA + ARENA budget, the team buys a commercial 670 kWh lithium-ion community battery and writes legally binding Survey-Strata By-Laws so that every buyer of the 36 townhouses automatically joins the microgrid, installs a 5–6.6 kW solar system, a heat-pump hot water system, and a 3-phase EV charger circuit.
Commercial Q&A: setting the internal strata solar buy-back rate and battery storage tariff so the Strata Company collects enough sinking-fund cash to maintain and eventually replace the battery cells after 10–12 years.
Data Caught: Landgate Strata Plan & Management Statement registration + ARENA project milestones.
Ask on Call: To Strata / Land-Lease Developer (Providence Lifestyle / Hesperia): 'When you buy and own the community battery yourself on a strata or land-lease village, how do you fund the 10-year battery cell replacement sinking fund and ongoing 24/7 fault monitoring?'
Because the cables only run under the private strata laneway and never cross a public road, the Strata Company registers a simple Licence Exemption with Energy Policy WA instead of applying for an ERAWA EDL licence.
Enpowered, EnergyTec, Change Energy, Providence Lifestyle in-house) are trapped inside single-title / survey-strata exemptions, whereas only Zenith Connected Energy (EDL7, EDL9, EDL10) has the regulatory licence infrastructure to wire massive 100–1,000 ha green-title subdivisions across public roads!Ensuring compliance with Energy Policy WA's embedded network consumer protection conditions (price cap at or below Synergy A1 tariff, clear itemized billing).
Data Caught: WA Government Gazette / Energy Policy WA Licence Exemptions Register.
Ask on Call: To Enpowered (Linh Le, (08) 6186 9200): 'Right now Enpowered operates under licence exemptions on Hesperia's single-title and strata projects—if Hesperia develops a 200 ha green-title industrial estate crossing public roads, would you apply for an ERAWA EDL or partner with Zenith?'
Civil contractors build the internal strata laneway, lay the private underground LV microgrid cables and rainwater pipes, install the 670 kWh battery on the common property lot, and pass Western Power's boundary protection tests.
Power Ledger / smart NMI-grade meters) at all 36 lot boundaries, and the 670 kWh central BESS.Technical commissioning Q&A between battery PCS, Power Ledger metering telemetry, and Western Power's Montreal Street transformer.
Data Caught: DevelopmentWA East Village practical completion notices.
Ask on Call: To Electrical Commissioning Engineer: 'On smaller 500 kWh–2 MWh strata batteries, what is the biggest ongoing operational headache once the civil contractor hands the keys over to the strata manager?'
Landgate issues the 36 Survey-Strata titles, the 670 kWh shared battery goes live, buyers settle on their lots, and townhouse builders construct the first ultra-efficient all-electric homes.
Educating strata managers and homebuilders on the gas-free all-electric mandate and smart meter onboarding.
Data Caught: Landgate Survey-Strata Title creation + Curtin University living lab monitoring reports.
Ask on Call: To DevelopmentWA / Curtin Living Lab Team: 'Now that East Village has been operating for several years, what is the biggest lesson learned about handing a community battery over to a residential Strata Company versus having a permanent BOO utility like Zenith run it?'
East Village achieved awesome technical results—supplying ~60–75% of the village's electricity from rooftop solar and the 670 kWh shared battery! BUT it also proved a huge commercial lesson for WA property developers: property developers and residential strata committees do NOT want to be power utilities! Managing battery maintenance, inverter faults, billing software (like Providence Lifestyle's R-Group headaches), and tariff updates is a nightmare for a developer or strata council—which is why Cedar Woods and DevelopmentWA switched to Zenith's 100% turnkey Build-Own-Operate (BOO) utility model for Peel, Ocean Reef, and Eglinton!
EDL7 and Ocean Reef EDL9 to Zenith on a 25-year BOO basis!).IRCR ($360.7k–$488.5k/MW/yr) and Western Power NSSS revenues.≥100–200 ha C&I or ≥200–1,600 dwellings) where Zenith funds 100% of the CapEx and runs the utility for 25 years!Long-term strata governance Q&A: who pays when an inverter or cooling unit faults at Year 7, and how a volunteer strata council manages retail tariff adjustments.
Data Caught: Curtin University / ARENA Final Report on East Village at Knutsford.
Ask on Call: To Providence Lifestyle (John Green, (08) 6333 0300): 'Right now Providence funds its own solar/Fronius batteries and uses external IT consultants like R-Group to manage village billing—if Zenith funded 100% of the Bullsbrook and Champion Lakes microgrids on a turnkey BOO basis and shared the AEMO peak capacity credits with you, how much CapEx and operational headache would that take off your plate?'