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Why on street corners? Incentivising battery storage, together with domestic solar, provides the same result but invites people to invest in adding infrastructure resilience which also provides potential economic independence on an individual basis.

I guess I'm thinking more of load balancing.
Not sure if it's more economic or not, but larger batteries further away from homes may not be as practical as smaller units scattered around suburbs.
As the price comes down, it might not be so much of a barrier.
Prismatic LiFePO4 cells only cost about 50 dollars USD overseas, but they retail here for 6 times the price, even then that's pretty cheap but shows the high margins retailers are charging.

Things are progressing fast in this sector. Contact has today announced that it will be installing a 100MW/200MWh Tesla grid scale battery at Glenbrook with another planned at Stratford.

My comment on domestic uptake of storage units (static batteries, EVs/V2G) was in regard to not only distribution of storage but more so in the potential cumulative storage capacity of thousands of home batteries and EVs. Considering we have ~80,000 BEVs and 10s of thousands of home batteries that is potentially >5GWh of connected storage potential spread across the country, so perhaps 1 GWh assuming those EVs and batteries offered only 20% of their capacity serving duty as a VPP (virtual power plant). Not an insignificant buffer capacity for the grid.