The CERI Knowledge Base aims to support Australian market entry for new consumer energy resource (CER) products and services by summarising information in relatively simple terms.

The site includes:

• CERI Knowledge Base – a set of articles that provide a details of Australia’s current market requirements and future directions
• CERI Newsrooms – three newsroom pages where you can find information on the latest industry consultations, upcoming events and major industry reports

The material is not intended to be a definitive resource. Readers are encouraged to use it to build out a general understanding of key topics and then refer to relevant regulation and standards documents for official requirements. If there is any conflict between this Knowledge Base and an official information source, the official source takes precedence.

The origin story

The CERI project has been initiated and funded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). The material on this site has been developed as an enX-led collaboration of over 100 industry experts from product developers, industry consultants, network business, retailers, regulators, industry groups and government agencies.

This project originates as a recommendation of Australia’s National Roadmap for Bidirectional EV Charging which found that international product developers were after a streamlined way to access Australian market requirements. Rather than being limited to bidirectional charging however, the knowledge base covers all forms of CER, from smart appliances to EVSE, right up to distribution-connected solar farms and battery energy storage systems.

How to contribute or suggest edits

There are around 100 articles in the CERI Knowledge Base and you can help us keep them up to date or accurate by using the “suggest and edit” link on each page. Your suggestions will go into a change request pipeline, and we will get to them as soon as we can. If you highlight the text of concern before you suggest an edit, we will know what information you are specifically referring to.

You can also “follow” pages to keep up to date on changes as they are made. This includes the CERI newsrooms where you can keep up to date on new Australian industry developments and suggest content that should be posted.

We hope you find this information useful. If you would like to provide feedback you can “like” or “dislike” any of the pages.

The CERI glossary

The Knowledge Base is supported by a glossary of over 700 key terms in common use in Australia’s energy sector. We have chosen to use common (rather than formal) definitions that hopefully will be intuitive and useful (enough) to readers. Let us know if you think a definition could be improved via the “contact us” link at the top of the page.