Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has increased the country’s emissions reduction target for 2035 to a range of 62% to 70%.

Delivering on its 2025 election pledge, Australia’s Labor government has announced it will introduce the Cheaper Home Batteries Program from 1 July 2025.

All 640 battery packs have been installed at Synergy’s 2,000MWh Collie BESS, which is set to be one of the largest batteries in Australia.

With Australia’s federal election set for 3 May 2025, Energy-Storage.news delves into how energy storage could be impacted.

National Battery Strategy aims to make Australia a “globally competitive producer” of batteries and battery materials by 2035.

There is “no shortage of investor appetite” and policy support is in place, but there are still some barriers to energy storage deployment on the scale needed to decarbonise Australia’s energy sector.

How a deployment target scheme could transform the economics of storage in Australia and help the government fulfil its promises to voters.