With WA and Federal Government battery rebates now available, it’s a great time to consider adding a battery to your home.
Adding a battery to your solar system lets you store solar energy generated during the day for use at night, when household demand is typically highest. This helps reduce your electricity costs, lower your carbon emissions, and reduce your reliance on the grid.
Optimise your solar energy and save on bills
Solar panels generate electricity during the day, but most households use more power in the evening. Without a battery, excess solar energy is exported to the grid at a low rate, while you’ll still need to buy electricity at night, often at peak prices.
A battery stores that excess energy so you can use it later, reducing your reliance on the grid and helping you capture the full value of your solar system. Over time, this can lead to significant savings, especially as electricity prices in WA continue to rise. It can also help to reduce your household’s carbon footprint. By using more of your own solar energy and less grid electricity, you can cut your emissions.
Here’s a simple example of how your costs may differ between having solar panels without a battery and when you have an appropriately sized battery installed as part of your solar system.
Without a battery: You might export 10 kWh during the day at around 3c per kWh, earning just 30c. Later, you buy back 10 kWh at around 30c per kWh, costing $3.
With a battery: That same 10 kWh is stored and used at night, so you avoid spending $3 on electricity from the grid.
Battery rebates
The WA and Federal governments have recently started offering rebates to reduce the cost of purchasing and installing a home battery. This makes it an ideal time to think about adding a battery or a solar and battery system to your home. You can learn more about the battery rebates and their eligibility criteria here.
Explore options for adding a battery to your home
With benefits ranging from lower bills and reduced emissions plus access to government rebates, a home battery is a great way to get more from your solar investment.
Head to our Kleenheat Spark online tool to get three personalised recommendations and costs for solar and battery (or battery only) packages. We’ll tell you how much you can expect to save on your electricity bills with each package. We’ll also apply the government battery rebates you’re eligible for automatically, so you can see exactly how they’ll reduce the cost of each package before you request a quote.