BHND4LSHV Storage / Hybrid

Essential Energy · Available · High voltage · 2026–27

Regional, rural and remote NSW, including most areas outside the major coastal networks.

BHND4LS HV Storage / Hybrid tariff guide

Who this is for

New high-voltage storage or hybrid connections with no co-located load.

How the bill works

This tariff is for a separate battery or hybrid connection. It is not for a normal business load.

What solar changes

Do not use this tariff to assess solar that shares a meter with normal business equipment.

What a battery changes

Treat this as a specialist connection project. The connection design and market contract control the result.

Check before you model

  • Confirm this code on a current retailer bill.
  • Check the connection approval, export limit and protection design.
  • Get an engineering review before you select equipment.
2026–27 network schedule

The price signal behind this code

Network rates only. These are not retail electricity prices.

Published network rates

Access
$27.4319/day
Peak import demand
$12.5825/kVA/month
Shoulder import demand
$11.2496/kVA/month
Off-peak import demand
$3.8099/kVA/month
Daytime export charge above 1.5 kW
$0.985/kW/month · 10am–3pm

When it applies

Import demand uses the storage time bands. The 2026–27 list also publishes an HV daytime export demand charge.

Illustrative example

Classify a 500 kW HV storage project

  • The new battery connects to the high-voltage distribution network.
  • Its rated power is 500 kW.
  • Only ancillary load shares the meter.
The published tariff path is BHND4LS because the connection is high voltage. The LV storage codes do not apply.

The example uses a project above 250 kW, but voltage is the key distinction from BLND4LS. Confirm the connection offer.

Battery opportunity lens

Tariff screen—not a savings quote

Specialist fit

Dedicated storage dispatch

This code is designed for a storage or hybrid connection, not proof that a battery suits an ordinary business load behind the existing meter.

What dispatch can affect

  • Time-varying storage import or export components published for the dedicated connection.
  • Market or retailer value where the connection and operating agreement allow it.

What it cannot erase

  • The bill of a separate business load that is not connected behind this meter.
  • Connection, protection, augmentation and market-access costs.

Evidence required

  1. Connection application, export envelope and network study.
  2. Half-hourly import and export dispatch model.
  3. Retailer, market-access and aggregation terms.
  4. Battery degradation, availability and round-trip efficiency assumptions.