The Kerta Project — Learn how Univers solution turn a 5MW solar and 5MWh BESS asset into an active AEMO market participant.
South Australia has one of the most dynamic electricity markets in the world. For solar asset operators, that volatility cuts both ways, it creates genuine revenue opportunities, but without the right technology in place, it just as easily becomes a source of losses.
The Kerta Project is a 5MW solar plus 5MW/5MWh DC-coupled BESS deployment in South Australia with an existing grid connection and hardware already in place. The challenge wasn’t the asset itself, it was making that asset respond intelligently to a market that moves in five-minute intervals, swings between negative and sharply positive pricing within the same trading day, and demands full AS/NZS grid compliance throughout.
Univers was engaged to provide the integration layer and market dispatch intelligence that the asset was missing. The deployment centred on three components of the EnOS™ platform: AI Microgrid for automated market optimisation, Power Plant Controller for grid compliance, and SCADA for real-time monitoring and regulatory reporting.
The Kerta Project’s asset was generating solar energy and had storage capacity on-site, but without intelligent dispatch, neither was being used to its commercial potential.
Univers deployed EnOS™ AI Microgrid across the Kerta site, integrating the AI-driven energy management, PPC, and SCADA into a single connected system — not three separate tools, but one layer of intelligence sitting across the entire asset. EnOS™ is OEM-agnostic, connecting to any solar inverter or BESS hardware regardless of manufacturer, with no requirement to replace or modify existing equipment.
The most direct measure of the deployment’s success was a 30% increase in energy arbitrage revenue. That uplift came from the same hardware, the same grid connection, and the same location. The difference was the intelligence layer sitting above it, making better decisions faster than any manual process could.
+30%
Energy Arbitrage Revenue
Increase in energy arbitrage revenue, driven by AI-optimised charge/discharge against live AEMO pricing.
100%
AS/NZS Compliance Achieved
Full AS/NZS grid certification and AEMO registration achieved — seamless certification and successful grid connection.
24/7
Autonomous Market Dispatch
Capturing arbitrage across morning ramp-ups, midday negative windows, and evening peaks — continuously.
The project also achieved full AS/NZS grid compliance and AEMO registration on schedule. The project achieved seamless certification and successful grid connection.
The Kerta Project has since been established as a reference deployment for Univers across the Australian market. A working proof point that a sub-5 MW solar asset, integrated with the right platform, can participate in the NEM as a commercially active and fully compliant market player.
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