Rebates of $5,000 per household, or $7,500 for regional households, are being promised in one of Australia's most rooftop solar-heavy states.

Western Australian Labor has unveiled plans to slash the cost of home battery storage, with state government rebates of up to $5,000 per household, or $7,500 for households on the regional Horizon Power grid…

Eligible households would have up to 10 years to repay the no-interest loans of $10,000 or less…

Cook has also promised to invest $50 million of public money to a Battery Manufacturing Program of direct grants and low-interest loans to support the development of a home battery supply chain in the state.

  • Funky_Beak
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    3 days ago

    Interesting. It seems to be scrubbed. They seem to be more worried about water supplies as a reason. But the reason that rehabilitation isn’t possible is that the two things these forrests need are bauxite and lithium.