Unity Battery Australia Calculator Suite
Illustrative scenarios for firm power at remote Australian sites.
Seven modules examining what would change at a hypothetical Australian or regional site if diesel generation, a grid extension, or both were replaced by a 1 MWe factory-built microreactor. Six are calculators. The seventh is a context panel.
The subject matter is energy engineering and economics — avoided fuel cost, avoided emissions, avoided network capital, and acoustic comparison at an operating site. Nothing in this suite concerns fund economics, returns or an investment decision.
The seven modules
Choose a module
Diesel Replacement Cost & CO2
Annual and cumulative diesel fuel cost and Scope 1 CO2-e, built from delivered fuel price and specific fuel consumption — compared against a Unity Battery capital-plus-service-charge case with cost difference and crossover year.
General · all segments Module 02 · CalculatorGrid-Extension Avoidance
Avoided poles-and-wires capital cost, shown only as a range. Capital cost alone — and the per-kilometre band still awaits independent AEMO validation.
Remote communities · mining · utilities Module 03 · CalculatorNoise Comparison
Diesel genset sound levels with distance against NSW EPA amenity criteria and Tasmanian portable-apparatus limits. No Unity Battery acoustic data exists, so none is shown.
Communities · defence · sensitive sites Module 04 · CalculatorCarbon Abatement Value
An illustrative valuation of avoided emissions at the ACCU spot reference and the Safeguard cost containment ceiling. A valuation, not an entitlement to credits.
Safeguard-covered facilities · corporates Module 05 · CalculatorMining & Remote Industrial TCO
Multi-year cost trajectory against the independent A$240–450/MWh remote-mine diesel benchmark. Unity figures are company-stated and separately badged.
Mining · oil & gas · remote industrial Module 06 · CalculatorData Centre Backup & Baseload
Two clearly separated scenarios: backup and resiliency at realistic low runtimes, and firm baseload at continuous duty. Redundancy sizing is flagged, never assumed.
Data centre operators & developers Module 07 · Context panel — not a calculatorAustralia’s Nuclear Advantage
Fact-checked display statistics with sources and qualifiers, explaining why the scenario is being discussed in Australia at all. No figure here drives any calculated output.
Context · display onlyHow to read the numbers
Evidentiary weight is signposted, not blended
Australian government, regulator and published research data — DCCEEW greenhouse accounts factors, CEFC and AECOM diesel benchmarks, Clean Energy Regulator carbon prices, NSW and Tasmanian EPA noise criteria, AEMO, CSIRO GenCost.
Deployable Energy’s own 2026 planning assumptions for Unity Battery cost, service charge and levelised cost. Not independently verified, and never presented with the same weight as the independent Australian data alongside it.
Project-derived figures that sit outside the independent published ranges. Available as an explicitly labelled sensitivity only. Never a default.
National statistics shown for context. These are structurally excluded from every formula in the suite — no national statistic becomes a site-specific saving.
Two known gaps: the per-kilometre grid-extension band awaits AEMO line-item validation, and Unity Battery acoustic test data does not exist.
What this suite does not do
- It does not express any output as a return, yield, IRR, distribution or fund-performance measure.
- It does not ask for, or adapt to, your income, assets, objectives or wholesale-client status, and access is not gated on any of those things.
- It does not present an investment call to action as the next step from a savings figure.
- It does not claim the Unity Battery is quieter than diesel, commercially proven, or approved for Australia.
- It does not claim Australian electricity prices are generally rising. NEM wholesale spot prices averaged about A$74/MWh in Q2 2026, down 47% year on year (AEMO Quarterly Energy Dynamics). The framing here is site-specific remote, off-grid and firm-power need.
- It does not treat criticality at Idaho National Laboratory as commercial deployment. Criticality is a neutronics milestone (POWER Magazine).
The grid-scale cost counterpoint
CSIRO’s GenCost analysis finds small modular reactors expensive in Australia’s grid context — A$328–619/MWh for SMRs in 2030, against A$35–63/MWh for standalone utility solar (GenCost 2024-25 Final Report). That finding is not disputed here.
These modules model a different question: a remote or off-grid site whose realistic alternatives are delivered diesel or a purpose-built network extension, not connection to the National Electricity Market. Where a cost claim appears in this suite, the comparator is named explicitly and is either the entered diesel case or the independent remote-diesel benchmark — never the NEM, utility solar, wind, or renewables plus storage, for which no like-for-like study is presented here.
Before this suite is published
- Written legal sign-off on the legal-status banner, the general-information boundary, the absence of financial-product inducement, and the placement of the context panel.
- Independent AEMO validation of the grid-extension band (Module 2).
- Independent Unity Battery acoustic evidence before any reactor bar is added (Module 3).
- Refresh of the time-sensitive items: greenhouse accounts factors, GenCost edition, carbon prices, uranium export value, COP28 signatory count, data-centre forecast, and the NEM counter-context.
General information only
These are illustrative energy scenarios, not financial product advice.
This suite provides general, illustrative information only about hypothetical energy-generation scenarios. It does not take into account your personal circumstances, objectives or financial situation, and does not constitute financial product advice, an offer of securities, or a recommendation to invest in Deployable Energy Fund Limited, Deployable Energy Limited, or any other entity. Figures are drawn from third-party Australian government, regulator and industry sources (cited on every page) and, where marked, from Deployable Energy’s own unverified planning assumptions. The Unity Battery microreactor has not been deployed commercially, and civilian nuclear power generation is not currently permitted in Australia. Nothing here should be relied upon as a representation that deployment in Australia is imminent or currently lawful.