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Rusty Langdon, Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

More than 60% of home battery installations inspected in Australia are ‘substandard’

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More than 60% of battery system installation work inspected under a federal government green energy program is substandard and 1.2% unsafe, according to a recent report by the Clean Energy Regulator.

The Cheaper Home Batteries Program has proved hugely popular. More than a quarter of a million small-scale battery systems have now been installed under it. This equates to 7.7 gigawatt hours of installed storage capacity.

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