SA Liberal says Home Battery Scheme will offer $100m in subsidies for up to 40,000 households to install battery storage.
SA to offer home battery grants of up to $6000
Battery/Storage
New solar + battery round for Yackandandah, as 100% renewable plans take shape
North-east Victorian town forges ahead on 100% renewable plans, with new bulk-buy solar round, community retailer and microgrid projects.
Solar hot water providers recognise cheap solar PV as they shift to diverters
Solar hot water is not what it used to be. Solar diverters use excess rooftop PV to heat water – like a cheap battery. And solar hot water pioneer SolaHart is now on board.
Three new solar farms and battery storage system to power NT airports
A NAIF loan of $150m will help add more than 50MW of solar PV and one battery storage system to airports in the Northern Territory.
Farmers to flock to solar and battery storage, as power costs bite
Survey reveals more than three-quarters of Australia's farmers plan to invest in solar and battery storage – and 20% are considering wind turbines, Angus Taylor – as the cost of power becomes a major agribusiness concern.
Origin to build 5MW virtual power plant in Victoria, from rooftop solar and storage
Origin wins $4.5m Victorian govt grant to build 5MW microgrid using the solar and battery storage of up to 650 customers.
Vicinity extends commercial solar + storage rollout to $75m, five states
Retail asset manager Vicinity Centres extends solar and storage plans by further $50m, across another 17 shopping centres, to cut grid power usage by 40%.
Victoria solar rebate: Let’s make those 650,000 systems VPP-ready
By encouraging households to install a VPP-ready, ‘smart’ solar system, the Victorian government can plant the seeds for the distributed, renewables-based grid of the future.
Melbourne shared solar + storage pilot wins state grant
Melbourne project to install shared solar and battery storage in three multi-tenanted buildings has won nearly $1m from the Victorian government.
Community retailer Enova to pilot Bryon Bay microgrid
Enova Energy reveals plans to develop a microgrid in its home town, to encourage the roll-out of locally generated, stored and distributed power.
Redflow batteries help power new beginning for heritage-listed Adelaide building
SA architecture taps home grown energy storage solution to get around a power supply problem that cropped up in the process of giving a 1916 building a 21st Century makeover.
Victorian town plans "smart energy precinct" to halve industry power costs
Local business and community in coastal town of Port Fairy begin work on developing multi-million dollar, renewables-based smart energy precinct.
WA energy minister mulls home battery incentives, in solar tariff review
WA energy minister to review solar tariffs, and possible incentives to boost battery uptake, as the state's rooftop PV market continues to boom.
Power Ledger extends P2P solar sharing to WA apartment complex
Perth company applies P2P platform to Fremantle apartment complex with solar and battery storage to offer residents "transactive layer" to trade their own energy.
Is this Australia's biggest home rooftop solar and battery storage system?
Stately home in regional Victoria could boast Australia's biggest grid-connected rooftop solar and storage system, after the innovative installation of 32kW of PV and 60kWh of batteries.
Redflow ships "biggest" battery order, to help power Fiji digital TV roll-out
Australia's Redflow has shipped its largest-ever order of zinc-bromine flow batteries, to provide energy storage for Fiji’s new digital television network.
