Australia’s $2.3 billion green energy program is funding oversized batteries and blowing out in cost
- Written by Rohan Best, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
Kindel Media/PexelsA federal government green energy program is subsidising unnecessarily large home batteries and blowing out in cost.
The Labor government launched its A$2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program in July, with the aim of bringing down household power bills and reducing people’s reliance on the energy grid. The program was...





