Australia’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program has surpassed 100,000 installations, with households and small businesses now benefiting from subsidised battery installations totalling 2GWh of distributed energy storage capacity.

The Energy Security Corporation has officially launched in New South Wales, Australia, with an initial funding allocation of AU$1 billion.

The New South Wales government has stacked the incentives available for a solar and home battery energy storage system (BESS) should it connect to a virtual power plant (VPP).