The sun is shining so brightly on the energy grid that household batteries must become the new frontier of power bill savings.
The four million households reaping the rewards of rooftop panels are set to lose what remains of solar feed-in tariffs in coming years due to a glut of daytime renewable energy supply, but a push is now on for the federal government to supercharge household batteries.
“Solar energy on our rooftops is in many ways our most important form of energy in our national energy market,” Bowen said. This would allow households to store the solar power that is not needed by the grid during the day and reduce their reliance on the grid at night, when it is powered largely by coal and expensive gas-fired generation.This would, in turn, reduce the grid’s reliance on polluting fossil fuels and help the federal government reach its goal of raising renewables to 82 per cent of the grid by 2030.
“Households shouldn’t think about solar exports at all. It’s actually about how you use your energy at home more effectively than exporting it to the grid,” McConnell said.
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