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"The number of home batteries installed under federal Labor’s rebate scheme has
passed the half-million mark, a huge new milestone for the hugely successful
policy that is further slashing household electricity bills while also
delivering “enormous benefits” to the grid.
Federal energy minister Chris Bowen will announce the crossing of the 500,000
threshold on Friday morning, from a residential solar and storage installer in
Castle Hill – a suburb in the New South Wales postcode that has the highest
number of Cheaper Home Batteries installed anywhere in the country.
The shiny new number comes with some interesting new data put together by the
Smart Energy Council, which shows that the flagship Labor policy has fared the
best in Australia’s outer suburbs and regions, and in Coalition-held
electorates.
The message from the data is that the appetite for home battery storage is not
partisan. In fact, of the top seven Cheaper Home Battery electorates in
Australia, four are Coalition-held – including Hume, the NSW electorate of the
leader of the Opposition, Angus Taylor, which is 7th in national rankings.
“Cheaper Home Batteries is doing exactly what we said it would do: helping
households cut bills, store cheap solar and take control of their energy use,”
says Bowen.
“Every battery installed means another household getting more value from their
rooftop solar, and another job for the local installers and small businesses
delivering this rollout across the country.”
The 500,000 milestone comes just over one year after Cheaper Home Batteries was
launched, with much fanfare but little true understanding of just how big the
consumer appetite for solar storage would turn out to be."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
