The real milestone isn’t battery growth
LV Visibility comes before orchestration. Before a utility can shape behaviour, it first needs to see it clearly.
Battery growth is easy to notice.
The harder question for utility leaders is this:
Can we actually see what that growth is doing to customer behaviour and network conditions?
That’s why a recent TasNetworks signal stood out to me.
Andrew Davis
Battery growth is not the REAL Signal
On the surface, the headline is strong battery uptake.
But the deeper milestone is better visibility.
As AMI coverage improves and more battery data is analysed, the conversation shifts from:
“Are batteries growing?”
to
“Are we gaining enough visibility to distinguish customer-value behaviour from network-value behaviour?”
That distinction matters.
Because customer adoption alone does not automatically create network value.
Customers will naturally optimise for their own economics first.
Utilities, meanwhile, still need to plan for capacity, tariffs, orchestration pathways, and long-term regulatory positioning.
So the real question for you is not just whether CER is growing.
It is whether your organisation has enough visibility to:
- understand how customer behaviour is changing
- identify where those behaviours matter most on the network
- make better planning and tariff decisions with confidence
- avoid confusing asset growth with operational readiness
To me, that is the strategic signal behind posts like this.
Visibility comes before orchestration.
Before a utility can shape behaviour, it first needs to see it clearly.
That is where smart metering, segmentation, and behavioural insight stop being metering topics and become executive decision tools.
The leaders who understand this early will be in a much stronger position to plan for a high-CER future.
— Pradeep
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