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Rohan Best, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University

Australia’s $2.3 billion green energy program is funding oversized batteries and blowing out in cost

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A federal government green energy program is subsidising unnecessarily large home batteries and blowing out in cost.

The Labor government launched its A$2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program in July, with the aim of bringing down household power bills and reducing people’s reliance on the energy grid. The program was projected to lead to more than 1 million installed batteries by 2030.

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