Australia conservatives and electricity rates

Source: Home Battery Storage Increasingly Popular in Australia

There is no doubt that 2018 has been a massive year for solar PV, with any number of major milestones and records notched up over the course of the year, including two million solar homes.

But could 2019 be the year of the home battery?

It just might be, if the popularity of the Queensland state government’s solar battery loan scheme is anything to go by — lending credence to the theory that canny consumers have been putting their purchases on hold while they wait for state and federal incentives to be put into effect.

That’s proved to be a smart move, particularly given that two of the major battery providers in the country — Tesla and LG Chem — have announced price hikes of between 10 and 20 per cent this year.​

Australia under the right-wing leaning, "Liberal" party has seen significant increases in electricity rates. The natural result are home-grown and regional efforts to displace the over priced, Federal grid. For example, the Hornsdale Power Reserve facility that:

• injects wind power into the grid
• significantly reduces the traditional, reserve power generators

The more the "Liberal" party pushes for coal generation, the greater the individual, corporate, and state efforts to do it themselves. The reason is "Liberal" electricity rates are too high and rising.

Bob Wilson