Complete 10-Phase Forensic Breakdown: Who started it, who handed the baton to whom, what went wrong in the Western Power Q&A phase, how Zenith engineered the 'Skinny Connection', ERAWA licensing Q&A, EPC construction, and 25-year retail/VPP operations.
10–15 MVA Standard Residential Estate Demand (1,270–1,600 homes × ~4.7–5.5 kVA ADMD) → Multi-million-dollar Western Power upstream 22kV feeder/substation headworks charge + multi-year connection queue delay.
Compressed by ~70% to a ≤4.0 MVA 'Skinny Connection' at a single 22kV boundary meter + 6.0 MWh Central Community Battery (BESS) + Private Underground HV/LV Network + Mandatory Rooftop Solar / Heat Pump / EV VPP orchestration.
(08) 9382 1233 & RobertsDay (Hatch)(08) 9422 5800 (Civil) & Underground Power Development (UPD) (08) 9381 3688 (HV)Cedar Woods (one of Australia's biggest residential land developers) buys an 86-hectare coastal paddock in Eglinton, right next to where the government is building the new Metronet Eglinton Train Station. They plan to build 1,270 family homes, a shopping village, and a primary school. At this earliest stage, they set up their project company, register for GST to claim back 10% on the land purchase, and brief their town planners.
Internal investment committee Q&A: staging 1,270 lots to match the Metronet station opening date while managing northern corridor infrastructure headworks.
Data Caught: ASIC SPV Registration + ABR GST Activation + ASX Acquisition Announcement + Landgate Title Transfer.
Ask on Call: To Cedar Woods / Residential Developer: 'When evaluating a 75–100 ha masterplanned parcel in a growth corridor like Eglinton, Bullsbrook, or Pinjarra, how much per lot do you initially plug into your feaso for Western Power headworks?'
Cedar Woods hires CLE Town Planning + Design to draw up the street grid for 1,270 separate house blocks, parks, and roads. Because everyday Australian homebuyers want 'Green-Title' freestanding homes on public streets maintained by the local council (City of Wanneroo), every power cable in the estate will have to cross public roads—which means if they ever use a private microgrid, that provider MUST hold an ERAWA EDL distribution licence.
SLIP DPLH-024).EDL licensee (Zenith Connected Energy) can.DPLH-024)Council & WAPC Q&A on transit-oriented densities around Eglinton Train Station, Public Open Space (POS) allocations, and acoustic treatments along Marmion Avenue / rail corridor.
Data Caught: SLIP WAPC Structure Plans (slip_structure_plans_dplh024.geojson) + City of Wanneroo Council Minutes.
Ask on Call: To CLE Town Planning (08) 9382 1233: 'After working on Eglinton Village with Cedar Woods, are you now building dedicated community battery reserve lots into your initial Structure Plans for other estates in constrained corridors?'
Before Cedar Woods can clear the coastal scrub and start earthworks for Stage 1, their environmental consultants (Emerge Associates) have to get clearance from the EPA and Federal environmental authorities (protecting Carnaby's Black Cockatoo habitat), while lodging the formal WAPC Subdivision Application (Form 1A). This locks in the Stage 1 civil construction schedule.
Form 1A), receiving conditional subdivision approval subject to standard Western Power and Water Corporation servicing clearances.DWER-120) & WAPC Subdivision Branch
EPA & Federal EPBC Q&A regarding coastal heath clearing offsets and karst/limestone geotechnical earthworks conditions.
Data Caught: SLIP EPA Referrals (dwer120.geojson) + Clearing Permits (dwer116.geojson) + WAPC Conditional Subdivision Approval.
Ask on Call: To Environmental / Planning Lead: 'Once conditional subdivision approval drops from WAPC, how much pressure is on the engineering team to lock in the Western Power servicing agreement so Stage 1 civil tenders aren't delayed?'
Cedar Woods hands the engineering baton to WA's powerhouse subdivision duo: Cossill & Webley (civil engineers) and Underground Power Development / UPD (specialist underground power engineers). UPD calculates that 1,270+ modern all-electric homes plus a shopping centre and school will demand ~10 to 15 MVA of electricity. UPD submits the official ENAR connection request to Western Power.
(08) 9422 5800 as lead civil engineer and Underground Power Development (UPD) (08) 9381 3688 as specialist HV/LV electrical designer.ENAR) for the multi-stage Eglinton Village subdivision.Technical Q&A with Western Power over north-west corridor feeder loading (Alkimos/Yanchep/Pinjar 22kV network) where half a dozen competing estates were simultaneously requesting power.
Data Caught: Western Power Network Opportunity Map showing northern corridor feeder congestion + Civil engineering tender documents naming C&W and UPD.
Ask on Call: To Underground Power Development (UPD) (08) 9381 3688: 'You guys designed the underground power transition at Eglinton Village—when you submit a 10–15 MVA residential ENAR today, which substations are giving you the worst headworks shocks?'
Western Power comes back to UPD and Cedar Woods with bad news: because the entire Alkimos–Eglinton–Yanchep coastal strip is booming at the same time (plus the new Metronet electric train line!), the existing 22kV power lines cannot supply 10–15 MVA to Eglinton Village. Unless Cedar Woods pays millions of dollars upfront for upstream feeder/substation upgrades and waits in a multi-year queue, they won't have enough power for their later stages!
Months of Q&A between UPD, C&W, and Western Power exploring whether staging the subdivision could defer the upstream HV feeder trigger—discovering that Stage 2/3 would hit a hard wall.
Data Caught: Our AI catches this exact pattern at Phase 1–3 by flagging every >75 ha / >1,000-lot residential SPV or structure plan inside a <5 MVA substation catchment.
Ask on Call: To Cossill & Webley (08) 9422 5800: 'When Western Power comes back with a multi-million-dollar feeder upgrade quote on a 1,000-lot estate like Eglinton, at what dollar per lot does the developer tell you to call Zenith for a microgrid alternative?'
Instead of paying Western Power millions for new poles and wires, Cedar Woods and UPD bring in Thomas Friberg and Rob Breden at Zenith Connected Energy. Together, they design a brilliant solution: Zenith will build a private underground power network and install a massive 6.0 MWh Community Battery inside Eglinton Village at Zenith's own expense! Because the battery and rooftop solar supply the evening peak, the entire 1,270-home estate only needs a tiny ≤4.0 MVA 'Skinny Connection' from Western Power—saving millions in headworks and giving every resident 20%–25% cheaper electricity!
Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd) on a turnkey Build-Own-Operate (BOO) community energy network—the exact case study Thomas Friberg walked you through in your interview (recording-2026-10-16-06-44-04.txt lines 409–488)!Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd — Rob Breden & Thomas Friberg)
Commercial & legal Q&A: structuring the Restrictive Covenants on every green-title lot sale contract, designing the Builder Rebate for 6 kW solar + smart inverter integration, and revising UPD's Western Power ENAR down to a single ≤4 MVA boundary connection.
Data Caught: ASIC incorporation of EGLINTON VILLAGE ENERGY PTY LTD + Cedar Woods / Zenith joint project announcement.
Ask on Call: To Residential Developer (Wolfdene / BMP Pinjarra): 'Cedar Woods used Zenith at Eglinton Village to compress a 1,270-home grid connection from 15 MVA down to 4 MVA while giving buyers 20–25% off their power bills—have you looked at that exact BOO structure for Pinjarra?'
Just like Peel Business Park, because Eglinton Village is a 1,270-lot Green-Title housing estate where the underground wires cross public council roads, Zenith has to apply to the WA regulator (ERAWA) for an official Electricity Distribution Licence (EDL10) and Retail Licence (ERL33). ERAWA runs a 21-day public Q&A period checking consumer protections for families and life-support customers, then grants Zenith the licence!
Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd lodged applications with ERAWA for Electricity Distribution Licence EDL10 and Electricity Retail Licence ERL33.EDL10 and ERL33, cementing Zenith's 100% private monopoly over green-title subdivision distribution licences in Western Australia (EDL7 Peel, EDL9 Ocean Reef, EDL10 Eglinton).EDL10 (Distribution) and ERL33 (Retail)Regulatory Q&A with ERAWA over residential customer churn rights, price-cap guarantees (pegged 20–25% below Synergy's regulated A1 tariff), and smart meter privacy.
Data Caught: ERAWA Licence Register (EDL10 & ERL33 geographic map PDFs showing exact Eglinton lot boundaries).
Ask on Call: To Regulatory / Project Lead: 'Because Zenith already has ERAWA-approved templates from EDL7, EDL9, and EDL10, how fast can you push a new green-title subdivision licence through the 21-day ERAWA consultation now?'
As the bulldozers finish the Stage 1 roads next to the new Eglinton Train Station, UPD and the civil contractors lay Zenith's private underground HV and LV power cables into the street trenches, put green power domes on the front corner of every house block, and install the central Community Battery and master switchroom. Western Power tests the boundary relays to verify the estate can never export uncontrolled solar back into the main grid.
32R reverse-power / zero-export control and fault protection) so the microgrid safely absorbs midday rooftop solar inside the community battery without back-feeding Western Power's feeder.Technical Q&A between UPD, Zenith, and Western Power over boundary fault protection grading and dynamic solar curtailment setpoints.
Data Caught: City of Wanneroo engineering Subdivision Works approvals + Cedar Woods Eglinton construction updates.
Ask on Call: To UPD / Civil Superintendent: 'Does installing a private EDL underground network in common trenches change anything for the civil contractor on site compared to a standard Western Power UDS handover, or is the physical cable-laying identical?'
Western Power energizes the single boundary connection! Zenith (Eglinton Village Energy EDL10) signs off the WAPC Underground Power Clearance condition so Cedar Woods can immediately get Landgate titles for Stage 1 lots, collect millions in settlement cash from homebuyers, and switch on the power for the 23-home Display Village and first families moving in!
Eglinton Village Energy Pty Ltd (EDL10) issued the WAPC Subdivision Underground Power Clearance letters for Stage 1 lots—allowing Cedar Woods to register deposited plans at Landgate and settle presold residential lots without Western Power handover delays.Builder onboarding Q&A: educating WA volume homebuilders (ABN Group, BGC, Summit, JWH) on connecting temporary builder power and wiring the mandatory rooftop solar + smart meter.
Data Caught: Landgate Deposited Plan Title Registrations + Eglinton Village Display Village launch.
Ask on Call: To Residential Development Manager: 'How did the volume homebuilders react to the Eglinton Village Energy connection process and solar design guidelines during the Display Village build?'
Here is how Eglinton Village runs day-to-day for the next 25 years: During the sunny middle of the day, hundreds of house roofs generate cheap solar power that soaks into Zenith's 6 MWh community battery. Then, between 4pm and 9pm when families come home, turn on the air-con, cook dinner, and plug in their EVs, the community battery discharges to power the whole suburb! Residents get 20–25% cheaper power bills from Eglinton Village Energy, and Zenith makes 95% of its revenue from those bills plus 5% from AEMO summer peak capacity credits!
Eglinton Village Energy (ERL33) bills all 1,270 homes and town-centre businesses directly at 20%–25% below Synergy's regulated tariff while capturing the unbundled network/capacity spread inside the private wire network.$360,700–$488,500/MW/yr in WEM IRCR capacity credits.ERL33) Retail Customer Team & Zenith 24/7 VPP Control Room
Ongoing homeowner & builder Q&A: onboarding new stages (Stages 4–10), integrating Wi-Fi/cloud inverter telemetry into Zenith's VPP, and annual ERAWA retail reporting.
Data Caught: ERAWA EDL10 / ERL33 Annual Performance Reports + Cedar Woods stage release maps.
Ask on Call: To Thomas Friberg / Zenith Operations: 'At Eglinton Village, what percentage of the evening peak reduction comes from the central 6 MWh community battery versus orchestrating the behind-the-meter residential solar, heat pumps, and home batteries?'