Seizing and storing the sun

Australia is already a global leader in rooftop solar, with our world-famous sunshine now a major source of clean energy for communities around the country. In fact, more than 3.6 million Aussie families have installed solar panels on the roof, and are saving an average of $1500 a year off their energy bills. 

We have a huge opportunity to keep growing clean energy: by rolling out millions more rooftop solar and storage systems on Aussie homes and businesses. 

Doubling rooftop solar could see households and businesses supplying up to 50GW of clean, renewable energy to our main national grid by the end of the decade. 

Getting more solar onto rooftops in our cities and suburbs, backed by household and community-scale storage, will slash household electricity bills, create heaps of good jobs, and empower Aussie families and businesses with cheaper, cleaner energy. 

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A big national push to double our rooftop solar and storage capacity by the end of the decade can cement Australia’s place as the world’s solar champions. 

We want to see solar rolled out across four million more Aussie rooftops, together with more household and community-scale batteries that will let us soak up, store and share the abundant electricity that will be created in our suburbs and cities. 

Enter the Aussie Solar Drive: a plan to ease cost-of-living pressures on households by empowering them with cheaper, cleaner energy, while also growing our national grid and slashing climate pollution. 

With the Aussie Solar Drive, we can:

  • Cut electricity bills by giving millions more households and businesses the opportunity to make and store their own clean, affordable and reliable energy
  • Get more solar installed on our businesses, schools, community facilities and public buildings, backed up by community batteries 
  • See more communities share in the benefits of solar and storage – like renters and people living in apartments – because solar made, stored and used in communities puts downward pressure on power prices.

Ensure new homes have solar and storage space built in; while creating tens of thousands of new jobs for workers needed for energy and efficiency upgrades to existing buildings

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