In just over six months, more than 22,000 Western Australian households and businesses have cut their bills for good by installing a home battery under the Commonwealth Government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program.
In Western Australia, more than 100 batteries have been installed every day since 1 July, more than doubling the number of home batteries installed in the nation’s largest state where nearly half of all homes already have rooftop solar.
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Six Western Australia postcodes sit in the nation’s top 20 for uptake of home batteries, with families and businesses in the outer metropolitan suburbs of Perth, such as Canning, Armadale and Gosnells, among the quickest to take advantage of bill busting batteries.
Nationwide, the Cheaper Home Batteries Program has helped more than 190,000 households and small businesses cut their power bills, with around three-quarters of installations in the suburbs and regions.
Last month, the government announced changes to ensure that more Australian households can benefit from the program, with a funding boost to $7.2 billion over four years.
These changes are expected to see more than 2 million Australians install a battery by 2030, delivering around 40GWh of capacity, doubling initial estimates of 1 million batteries and increasing the expected capacity by almost four times.
Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said, “We want more Western Australian households to have access to batteries that are good for bills and good for the grid.
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“In just six months, 22,000 homes across the state have cut their bills for good, storing cheap, fast and safe solar energy to be used night or day, when and where it’s needed.
“Household batteries also support our grid stability by shifting renewable energy use from the middle of the day to peak times, reducing costs for everyone.”
