Newcastle City Council is using SwitchDin technology to unify real time energy monitoring, support decarbonisation, and progress towards Net Zero Emissions through large scale solar, emerging technologies, and smarter energy storage and electrification.

Lake Macquarie City Council deployed SwitchDin’s Virtual Energy platform to deliver reliable EV charging at a grid constrained site. Integrated control of solar, batteries and chargers keeps demand safely capped, avoids costly peaks and supports the Council’s long term sustainability goals.

Getting inverter control to work in a lab is easy. Making multiple inverter brands, batteries, and firmware versions behave consistently across live C&I sites is the real challenge. This blog outlines five common causes of integration breakages, why standards like IEEE 2030.5 are helping but not solving everything, and how SwitchDin de-risks multi-vendor integrations through disciplined change management, AI-assisted engineering, and optimisation at scale.