Cockburn powers up as Cheaper Home Batteries program marks 250,000 installations

As the Albanese Government’s Cheaper Home Batteries program powers past 250,000 installations, Cockburn’s 6164 postcode is amongst the fastest across the nation when it comes to taking up the bill-busting technology.

Around half of the households, small businesses and community organisations that are putting in a home battery are also installing new or upgraded solar systems at the same time.

Batteries help households store the cheaper, cleaner energy they generate during the day, and use it at night. That means less exposure to peak prices, a more reliable grid, and downward pressure on prices across the system. 

In just eight months, the Cheaper Home Batteries Program has added 6.4 gigawatt hours to the system, effectively doubling the capacity of home batteries in Australia.

New postcode-level data shows the clean energy upgrade is being led by the outer suburbs and by rural and regional communities, rather the inner-city. Around 77 per cent of uptake has occurred in these regional and outer-suburban areas.

The data shows strongest uptake across family suburbs, outer metro growth areas, and towns and regions where households are already leading the way on rooftop solar.

Quotes attributable to Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen:

“This is what the clean energy transformation looks like when it is working for Australians. It is practical, it is household-focused, and it is being led by the suburbs and the regions.

“Cheaper Home Batteries are helping families cut power bills and get more value from their solar. The postcode data makes it clear, this is not an inner-city story, it is a national story.

“The Coalition want to slow down cheaper renewables and keep people stuck with higher bills. Labor is getting on with the job, cleaner, cheaper, reliable energy for every community.”

Quotes attributable to Josh Wilson MP, Member for Fremantle:

“In the Fremantle electorate, around 2,000 households and local businesses have embraced the Cheaper Home Batteries Program and Cockburn’s 6164 postcode is among the fastest neighbourhoods to take this up anywhere in the nation. 

“These results reflect what households are telling me; people want to cut their power bills, get more value from their solar, and take control of their energy use.

“It’s just fantastic to see this rollout happening at a rapid pace across the country and I’m so pleased to be delivering a policy in government that resonates so strongly with my community, a place that has always been at the leading edge of embracing new energy solutions like solar and the future of clean, cheaper energy.

“People here don’t want outrage and division. They want lower bills and a practical plan that delivers our clean energy transition. That is exactly what this program is doing.”

Top Suburbs in Fremantle Electorate 

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