Solar Citizens wants to warmly thank Dr Gabrielle Kuiper and Danny Kennedy for being our special guest speakers at our Summer Soiree event, where we all met our new Solar Citizens team member - Mr Battery! Consumer energy resources are the "real zero heroes" of the shift to clean energy - already driving down cost of living, energy bills, and carbon emissions. At our soiree, we celebrated the many wins of 2024 for Consumer Energy Resources that Solar Citizens has been campaigning for, and looked ahead to the challenges and opportunities of 2025. Mr Battery will be leading our charge for a federal battery rebate, to marry our Aussie home owners $25 billion investment in rooftop solar with home batteries so we can use cheap clean solar day and night, and help retire aging coal-fired power plans. We need to maximise the cheap clean power from our four million homes with rooftop solar by getting a million household batteries in our homes by 2030. The Australian Energy Market Operator, AEMO, has done modelling which shows we need to ‘firm the electricity grid’ with 8GW of household batteries, roughly equivalent to one million installations by 2030, to ensure lower energy bills during the orderly exit of coal-fired power. Given this important role for home batteries, it’s hugely concerning that there is no government policy to drive delivery of this large number of household batteries.
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