A-Lab is ARENA’s grid integration innovation lab. It draws on a network of people with a wide range of expertise and passion to drive systemic change in the electricity sector. A-Lab provides a space for these people to explore and define solutions to the most complex challenges of integrating renewables and grids, combining their respective strengths and building momentum for change. A-Lab was created to drive renewable energy integration in Australia by bringing together people from across the entire sector and providing a variety of methods, tools and approaches to facilitate intensive, collaborative processes. A-Lab can enable breakthrough creative thinking on some of the most exciting and complex challenges facing the electricity sector. Imagining what this future could be is one thing? building on the idea is much more challenging. A-Lab started from assuming that the future will be a customer focussed energy ecosystem.