Australia’s electricity system has quietly crossed an important threshold.
For decades, as we all know, electricity flowed in one direction. Large power stations generated electricity, networks delivered it, and households consumed it.
Today, millions of Australians do all three, but our energy markets are too slow to reflect this transformation.
More than 4.4 million homes now generate electricity from rooftop solar. Over 450,000 households have installed home batteries through the Federal Government’s Cheaper Home Batteries Program in its first year.
Electric vehicles are beginning to emerge as flexible energy resources capable of charging when solar is abundant and, if frustrating obstacles are removed, will increasingly supply electricity back to homes and the grid.
