Safety First: Battery and Fire‑Safety Considerations for Aussie Homes
The romance of solar can obscure the practicalities. Australia is hard on equipment. Heat, dust, salt air, storms — they test every weak link. That’s why battery safety lives in the details: quality hardware, correct siting, tidy wiring, ventilation that makes sense, and software that doesn’t push to the edge.
A VPP should enhance safety, not compromise it. That means never raiding your reserve to chase a price spike. It means dispatch decisions that respect your hardware’s limits and your household’s settings. It means transparency about when and why an export occurred.
The human side matters too. Label the switchboard. Teach the family how to ride through an outage without turning the kitchen into a test lab. Keep firmware updated. Schedule an annual visual inspection.
None of this is glamorous, but it’s what keeps a good system good. Safety is not the enemy of performance. In Australian conditions, it’s the foundation of it.