Batteries help households store the cheaper, cleaner energy they generate during the day, and use it at night. That means less reliance on peak prices, a more reliable grid and putting downward pressure on prices for everyone.
New postcode-level data shows the clean energy upgrade is being led by the outer suburbs and by rural and regional communities, not the inner-city. Around 77% of uptake has occurred in these regional and outer-suburban areas.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen and Mary Doyle MP, Member for Aston, said the results reflect what households are telling them right across the country; people want to cut their power bills, get more value from their solar, and take control of their energy use.
The data shows strongest uptake across family suburbs, outer metro growth areas, and towns and regions where households are already leading the way on rooftop solar.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen
“This is what the clean energy transformation looks like when it is working for Australians. It is practical, it is household-focused, and it is being led by the suburbs and the regions.
“Cheaper Home Batteries are helping families cut power bills and get more value from their solar. The postcode data makes it clear, this is not an inner-city story, it is a national story.
“The Coalition want to slow down cheaper renewables and keep people stuck with higher bills. Labor is getting on with the job, cleaner, cheaper, reliable energy for every community.”
Quotes attributable to Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Josh Wilson
“The Albanese Government is making an energy transition that delivers the cheapest energy system into the future and a cleaner energy system as we participate in the global cooperative effort to tackle dangerous climate change.
“Australian households and business are taking up not just rooftop solar, but now home batteries, to take control of their energy destiny, while helping Australia to be the leader in distributed energy and storage the world over.”
Quotes attributable to Mary Doyle MP, Member for Aston
“In Aston, 2,302 families and local businesses are embracing energy upgrades that save them money and make their homes and businesses more energy efficient.
“These results show our community is getting on with it, taking up batteries and backing a cleaner energy future that is made from Australia’s abundant renewable resources.
“People here don’t want slogans. They want bills that are easier to pay, and a plan that delivers. That is exactly what this program is doing.”
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