PARTICIPATE · SYDNEY PILOT OPEN NOW
20 Hearths.Four neighbourhoods.Gathering new possibilities for everyday energy.
DELOCA is inviting apartment communities, energy companies, food businesses, local makers, campuses and city organisations to participate in the Sydney Pilot.
This is a live business-development programme demonstrating how portable low-carbon energy can become part of everyday life across homes, local commerce, businesses and neighbourhood communities.
Twenty Hearths will move through homes, businesses and public-facing places across Redfern, Surry Hills, Green Square and Darling Square. Participants can use or host a Hearth, test a defined opportunity, or co-develop a new application with DELOCA.
Enrolment in the Sydney Pilot is open now. We are beginning testing and engagement with a limited number of participants and partners through the three Partnership Pathways below. Get in touch with us early.
Whether you would like to purchase or host a Hearth, test a defined business idea or co-develop a new service over the DELOCA platform, we would like to hear from you.
Contact us at: pilot@deloca.com.au
Moving with new energy,shaping experiences,a new market,reaching places.
DELOCA is a new low-carbon battery-charging platform, and the Hearth is a portable energy object designed for everyday life. Together, they bring stored low-carbon electricity into balconies, courtyards, cafés, parks, beaches, markets, campuses, wellness spaces and events, a new way of energy, shaping personal space and empowering new businesses with greater agency.
By distributing 20 Hearths across four neighbourhoods, the Sydney Pilot brings together four domains.
How can portable storage respond to solar-rich, lower-carbon periods while leaving people in control of when and how they charge and use energy?
The pilot will test flexible consumer loads, carbon-aware charging and portable stored energy during peak-demand periods. It will connect energy-system signals with everyday decisions made by households and businesses, including those without rooftop solar.
How can product design, digital services and user control make energy participation more experiential, trusted and enjoyable?
The pilot will examine aspects of user control, live carbon-intensity information, participation experiences, charging experiences and different forms and types of incentives.
How might incentives for low-carbon energy use create productive relationships among households, businesses and local communities?
The pilot will explore how local offers and collaborations involving New South Wales and Sydney-based producers, makers, businesses and neighbourhood networks, can be integrated as incentives for low carbon charging.
How can people collect low-carbon energy and move it between apartments, balconies, hospitality settings, parks, markets, courtyards, campuses, cultural venues and neighbourhood events?
The Hearth is more than an energy-storage product. It is adaptable and movable energy infrastructure that can support new activities, interactions and relationships with place making.
Own and experience a Hearth at home, in your business or within a service setting.
Best suited to households, cafés and small businesses.
Shape, test and grow with a defined energy, product, service or place-based application.
Best suited to food, beverage and hospitality businesses with a defined energy opportunity or problem.
Develop and build a bespoke DELOCA and Hearth collaboration for business integration and scale-up.
Best suited to organisations working across housing, construction, property, energy, infrastructure, leisure, or medium- to large-scale local production.
Own and experience a Hearth at home, in your business or within a service setting.
Best suited to households, cafés and small businesses.
Shape, test and grow with a defined energy, product, service or place-based application.
Best suited to food, beverage and hospitality businesses with a defined energy opportunity or problem.
Develop and build a bespoke DELOCA and Hearth collaboration for business integration and scale-up.
Best suited to organisations working across housing, construction, property, energy, infrastructure, leisure, or medium- to large-scale local production.
* Each pathway is configured around an agreed application, site and programme scope and remains subject to site feasibility and applicable approvals. Hardware quantities are maxima rather than standard inclusions. All three offerings provision ownership and retention of hardware. Electrical work, approvals, specialist engineering, building works and third-party systems are assessed and quoted separately where required.
Interested in participating in the Sydney Pilot? To discuss a pathway, scope and commercial terms, contact us at: pilot@deloca.com.au
Based on your role, organisation and business context, we will work with you to understand your needs, identify a problem space, shape a design opportunity or develop new business potential.
Our four-part co-design framework with DELOCA and the Hearth focuses on measurable and actionable opportunities to Improve, Decarbonise, Enhance and Raise your everyday living, home, business or service.
Improve comfort and convenience at home, or create a better business, service or customer experience with DELOCA and the Hearth.
Explore how everyday living, household activity, business operations or service offerings can be electrified and supported by the DELOCA platform.
Elevate the visual, relational and environmental experience of a home, business, place or customer setting.
Raise consumer energy participation, develop new revenue opportunities or support the sale of locally made products and services through DELOCA.
Households, property developers, apartment communities and precincts seeking new energy infrastructure, lower-carbon living and thoughtfully designed experiences.
Restaurants, cafés, hotels, holiday accommodation, markets and cultural venues seeking to improve customer experience, test low-carbon food concepts or create place-based activations.
Appliance companies, low-carbon manufacturers, makers, market traders and service providers developing purpose-led local products and seeking new markets connected to low-carbon energy use and incentives.
Utilities, distribution network service providers, energy retailers and flexibility providers interested in flexible loads, consumer energy resources, carbon-aware charging and participation behaviour.
Universities, councils, government teams and innovation organisations working on field research, energy-transition participation, service innovation and new relationships among energy, place and local economic life.