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Home batteries and rebates: What you need to know

1 week ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Anne Delaney

From July 1, Australian households can finally tap into the federal government’s long-awaited battery rebate—offering up to 30% off the upfront cost of installing a home battery. It’s a big win for anyone looking to cut power bills, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and back a smarter, more flexible energy grid. But with so many battery types, features, and fine print to wade through, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
SwitchedOn Australia podcast: Tesla driving sparkie’s guide to home batteries and rebates

1 week ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Anne Delaney

From July 1, households across Australia will be able to access the federal government’s long-awaited battery rebate, which will offer 30% off the upfront cost of installing a home battery. It’s a major push to help people make the switch to cleaner energy, reduce power bills, and support a smarter, more resilient grid. But while the rebate is generous, navigating the battery market is anything but simple. How do you choose the right battery? What should you look for in an installer?
Solar Insiders Podcast: Home battery storage with the lot

2 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Sophie Vorrath |Rachel Williamson

Solar Insiders Podcast: Home battery storage with the lotJune 12, 2025 by Sophie Vorrath & Rachel Williamson Leave a Comment RedEarth CEO Marc Sheldon on the evolution of home batteries, the company’s new “Microgrid in a Box” offering, and why he’s not a fan of VPPs. Plus news of the week. You can find previous episodes of Solar Insiders here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Heat pumps have become the norm in Germany's new homes

3 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Sören Amelang

A large majority of new residential houses and buildings in Germany feature a heat pump as their main heating system, showed numbers from the government’s statistical office Destatis. The climate-friendly heating technology was installed in more than two thirds (69.4 percent) of the 76,100 homes finished in 2024, a five percentage point increase compared to 2023.
SwitchedOn podcast: Energy efficiency – why is doing more with less so difficult? - One Step Off The Grid

3 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Anne Delaney

It’s often overshadowed by solar panels, wind farms, and big batteries, but energy efficiency remains one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways to cut emissions and reduce energy bills in our homes. Energy efficiency is the unsung hero of the clean energy transition that lets us do more with less, to use less power to achieve the same results by cutting waste and improving performance.
How solar schools are powering up with battery storage

3 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Sophie Vorrath

Battery storage is becoming the new norm in solar schools, with more than 130 facilities across the country adopting storage solutions, aiming to unlock energy and emission savings and build greater resilience for their school communities. This shift is in part driven by a raft of government initiatives and worsening feed-in tariffs, which mean that exporting solar is no longer the cash cow it once was.
Federal and state battery rebates combine to reach five times as many households

3 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Sophie Vorrath

Federal Labor and its Western Australia state government counterpart have announced that their respective home battery incentive schemes will be merged to work in unison – but not in the way many might have hoped. Rather than allowing applicants to stack the two rebates to get a double discount on a home battery, a merging of the two schemes will instead mean around five times as many WA households will be able to access the state rebate, which ranges from between $5,000 to $7,500.
"Sun tax" state bucks trend and raises solar feed-in tariff, Victoria sets floor at zero

3 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Sophie Vorrath

The New South Wales pricing regulator has achieved a rare feat in the modern solar age, setting a benchmark rooftop PV feed-in tariff that is higher, and not lower, than the year before. The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal last week published its solar feed-in tariff benchmark ranges – a recommendation, only, for the state’s retailers – for 2025-26 at between 4.8 and 7.3 c/kWh, up from 4.9 to 6.3 c/kWh in 2024-25.
Solar, storage and EV charging in one: Australian battery maker announces "microgrid in a box"

3 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Sophie Vorrath

The Australian home battery outfit whose customers include federal energy minister Chris Bowen has a new all-in-one residential solution in the works that will combine solar, storage and bidirectional electric vehicle (EV) charging, in a streamline distributed energy with electric mobility. The new product, billed as the world’s first residential “microgrid-in-a-box” (MIB), is the result of a partnership between Australian battery maker RedEarth, China’s Nebula Electronics and Germany’s ambibox.
State closes down home battery loan scheme ahead of federal rebate

4 weeks ago | onestepoffthegrid.com.au | Sophie Vorrath

Victoria has closed off applications to its zero interest solar battery loan, one month ahead of the launch of the federal government rebate that promises to cut the cost of home energy storage by around 30 per cent. The Victorian Labor government launched the interest-free statewide loan scheme in July 2023, as a replacement to the state’s nearly $3,000 home battery rebate which was launched through Solar Victoria in 2019.