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Household battery storage surges as plunging solar tariffs improve the economics (www.abc.net.au)

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In short:

Around 75,000 battery storage systems were installed last year, up 47 per cent from 2023.

Current modelling estimates the payback time on a battery system at around eight years for a typical household.

What's next?

A wide range of experts, including a former RBA deputy governor, are calling for the federal government to introduce household battery subsidies to encourage uptake.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

This is where I really really wish we had more takeup on the Neighbourhood Battery Scheme in vic. It's fucking brilliant. Excess is poured into the batteries from surrounding houses, they can island in the event of a grid failure, it deals with the irregularities in a PV feed in a way that constant-current transformers can't and it means that the haves make things a little cheaper for the have nots.