Victoria’s home battery energy storage programme has supported the installation of approximately 20,000 residential energy storage systems, doubling its original target of 10,000 units, according to the state’s climate action minister, Lily D’Ambrosio.
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.
Tesla has issued a product recall on its Powerwall 2 residential battery storage solution across Australia due to a “battery cell defect” from a third-party supplier.
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).
Delivering on its 2025 election pledge, Australia’s Labor government has announced it will introduce the Cheaper Home Batteries Program from 1 July 2025.
Energy storage virtual power plant (VPP) provider Sonnen and contractor ES Solar have sold 18MWh of energy storage systems in Utah, US, as part of the ‘Go Back’ programme.
The UK residential energy storage market has moved from primarily being about coupling with solar PV to one where users seek to take advantage of time-of-use tariffs, solutions provider GivEnergy told Energy-Storage.news.
Virtual power plants (VPPs) in California using technologies including home batteries and demand response (DR) could provide 7.5GW of capacity in ten years’ time, 15% of peak demand, analysis from consultancy the Brattle Group shows.
