Sundown

Sundown · Summer 2026–27

Got a home battery?
Keep your energy plan.
Get paid to help the grid.

Up to $200 per household, capped and based on participation.
Connecting up to 30 homes for the first pilot.

Start the survey (about one minute)

What this is

Demand response saves energy at a grid location instead of firing up another generator, and pays the homes and businesses that shift when they use power. Electricity is usually tightest on hot summer afternoons, when air conditioning across thousands of homes peaks at the same time. The grid has to meet that peak with whatever is available, and the last bit of it is the most expensive and usually the dirtiest. If enough homes with batteries discharge during those few hours, the peak gets smaller — and everyone's bills feel it, not just the households taking part.

Batteries are very good at this. They charge through the day from abundant solar and hold that energy until the sun goes down and the price is high. And the response is instant.

Illustration of a homeowner beside their smart meter, with an electric car charging in the garage

Who we're looking for

We identified a grid need in Melbourne's west, so that is our first preference. However, we will gladly consider any home in Australia: it is the same survey, and where the registrations land helps us decide which integration path to build next. In order of preference:

  1. Postcodes 3029 and 3030 (Tarneit, Truganina and Werribee), in Melbourne's west
  2. Anywhere in Victoria
  3. Any state on the NEM National Electricity Market (VIC, NSW, QLD, SA, TAS)
  4. Anywhere in Australia, including Western Australia and the Northern Territory

What we'd ask of you

Three things, and none of them involve changing your energy plan.

  1. Connect your battery to Daydream through its app or cloud account. No hardware, no site visit.
  2. We watch prices and grid conditions and tell your battery when the network is tight or wholesale prices spike. Ideally that dispatches straight to your battery, and you'll get an email or SMS either way.
  3. Around 6 times across summer, your battery discharges during those windows — doing what it was built for, at the moment it's worth the most. You set a reserve level we never go below, and you can opt out of any event.

That's the whole pilot. We're proving something simple: that ordinary households with batteries can help hold up the grid, and get paid for it.

Registering does not guarantee a place. We have 30 spots, the registration deadline is 30 September 2026, and we'll confirm participant selection during September 2026. The pilot is intended to run from October 2026 until March 2027. Pilot payment is capped at $200 per household and may be adjusted based on participation. We're an early-stage Melbourne company — this trial is how we prove the idea works, and we'll share what we learn with everyone who takes part.

Read the full FAQ

The survey

Three questions about your setup, then how to reach you. About a minute.

1. Your battery and inverter

The inverter is the part we actually talk to, so it matters even if you're not sure.

How much of your battery level would you share?

You set a reserve level and we never go below it.

2. Your electricity retailer

You keep whoever you're with — we're not asking you to switch.

3. Are you already in a VPP?

If you are, we still want to hear from you — it just changes your personalised event workflow.

If you're not in a VPP, why not?

Tick none or all that apply.

Was your battery installed under a Solar Victoria rebate or interest-free loan?

4. How can we reach you
Tell us about the rest of your setup (optional)

All of this is optional. It helps us plan what to support, nothing more.

Is your battery or inverter connected to Home Assistant?

How we handle your information

Who is collecting this: Daydream Energy Pty Ltd (ACN 700 900 483).

What we collect: the answers you give in this form, plus your IP address, browser user agent, the page that referred you, and any code printed on the flyer you scanned. We use the flyer code to tell which letterbox drop reached you. If you don't give us these details we can't consider you for the pilot.

Why we collect it: to work out whether your home is eligible for the Sundown pilot, to choose the participating households, to decide which battery and inverter systems we need to support, and to decide if there is enough interest to run the pilot program. We will not use your details for any other purpose without asking you first, and we will never sell them.

Where it is stored: our systems are hosted by Amazon Web Services, so your information is stored and processed on infrastructure they operate.

Who we may share it with: if you are selected for the pilot and separately agree at that point, we may anonymise your household data to share pilot performance with your electricity distributor. Nobody else. The data we present is anonymised to show energy trends rather than any specific household or personal information.

How long we keep it: if you are not selected, we will delete your details within 6 months of the pilot's participants being confirmed.

Giving us this information is voluntary. You can decline, and you can leave any optional question blank.

To see, correct or delete what we hold about you, or to make a complaint, email hello@daydream.energy and we will action it.

Our full privacy policy is linked below.

Read our full privacy policy

You can stop the emails or the texts, or opt out of the pilot, at any time.

Registering doesn't guarantee a place — we'll confirm the 30 households in September 2026.