The Energy Innovation Toolkit is designed to reduce barriers to innovation and make navigating energy regulation easy.

The Innovation Enquiry Service helps innovators understand where new technologies and business models fit within current frameworks, exploring what options exist to enter the market right now. Our proof-of-concept trials offer time-limited regulatory relief, and will be facilitated by Regulatory Sandboxing.

Regulatory Sandboxing is a policy tool designed to help frameworks adapt to rapid change. Through Regulatory Sandboxing, proof-of-concept trials will operate under relaxed regulatory settings, so that innovative business models and technologies can be tested in a real-world environment. The outcomes of these trials will be analysed and provided to policy makers as evidence to inform upcoming regulatory change.   

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Results

Ausgrid Community Power Network trial waiver application

Ausgrid’s proposal is the first trial application under the policy-led sandboxing approach launched by the AER in February 2025.
Type
Energy Innovation Toolkit
Sector
Electricity
Status
Open