{"id":44503,"date":"2020-11-04T06:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=44503"},"modified":"2020-11-04T06:01:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:31:52","slug":"nt-battery-grant-mb1747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nt-battery-grant-mb1747\/","title":{"rendered":"NT Home And Business Battery Scheme Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nt-battery-scheme.jpg\" alt=\"NT Home And Business Battery Scheme\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nt-battery-scheme.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nt-battery-scheme-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nt-battery-scheme-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nt-battery-scheme-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Territory Government says more than 300 Territorians have applied for its Home and Business Battery Scheme (HBBS) grant. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just to back up a bit..<\/p>\n<p>Up until early April this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/nt\/\">NT solar feed-in tariff<\/a> was the most generous in the country accepting new applicants, offering a rate equivalent to that of electricity supply &#8211; around 24c per kilowatt-hour at that point. As going solar is particularly pricey in the NT compared to southern states, the feed-in tariff arrangement helped accelerate payback.<\/p>\n<p>But then the Gunner Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nt-solar-tariff-mb1474\/\"> announced<\/a> a new standard feed-in tariff of 8.3 cents per kWh for all new business and residential solar installations up to 30kW capacity.<\/p>\n<p>This had a dampening effect on new solar power system installations. After a spike in May from previously committed installations, activity started to drop off.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April &#8211; 258 installations<\/li>\n<li>May &#8211; 322 installations<\/li>\n<li>June &#8211; 256 installations<\/li>\n<li>July &#8211; 233 installations<\/li>\n<li>August &#8211; 151 installations<\/li>\n<li>September &#8211; 96 installations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Source: Clean Energy Regulator, figures approximate)<\/p>\n<p>The Regulator notes 3,492 small-scale solar installations for last year in the Territory and as at the end of September this year, the number was around the 2,179 mark. While it&#8217;s still very worthwhile to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/cities\/darwin\/\"> install solar panels in Darwin<\/a> and elsewhere in the NT, payback is now longer and that has discouraged some.<\/p>\n<h2>Enter The Home And Business Battery Scheme<\/h2>\n<p>Bearing in mind Power and Water Corporation and Jacana Energy are NT Government owned, the money saved on the Territory&#8217;s feed-in tariff was to be used to fund the Home and Business Battery Scheme; which provides Territory homeowners and businesses with $6000 grants to either install a solar power system with an eligible battery and inverter, or to add an eligible solar battery and inverter to an existing system.<\/p>\n<p>One of the gotchas of the scheme is if an existing solar owner was on the 1:1 FiT (now called the premium feed-in tariff), taking up a grant would see them switched to the 8.3c rate.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunner Government says the battery scheme has been successful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Home and Business Battery Scheme has energised the Territory\u2019s battery installation industry, providing valuable experience for installers and building understanding of local markets, supply chains and technical requirements.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More than 300 Territorians have applied for the grant, with &#8220;over 230 vouchers hitting local businesses&#8221;. How many installations have actually occurred at this point isn&#8217;t clear. When the grant was originally announced, it looked like there would only be enough cash for 130 grants, so obviously more has been thrown at it.<\/p>\n<p>The grant was also only going to be available until November 30th 2020 or sooner if funding was exhausted. There&#8217;s nothing mentioned on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nt.gov.au\/industry\/start-run-and-grow-a-business\/grow-your-business\/business-grants-and-funding\/home-and-business-battery-scheme\">HBSS information page<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/businessnt.smartygrants.com.au\/homeandbusinessbatteryscheme\">SmartyGrants website<\/a> indicating the latter has occurred and the deadline for applications remains midday, November 30. The NT Government&#8217;s press release also <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.nt.gov.au\/mediaRelease\/33941\">mentions<\/a> &#8220;the first round of grants&#8221; &#8211; so there may be more to come once this round is over (but don&#8217;t bank on it).<\/p>\n<p>SQ&#8217;s Ronald wrote about the scheme back in August and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nt-battery-subsidy\/\">article on the HBBS<\/a> is well worth checking out, as is SQ&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar-calculator\/\">solar and battery calculator<\/a> where you can crunch the numbers to determine if a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\">home battery<\/a> makes financial sense for you &#8211; or see the simple payback on going solar-only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Territory Government says more than 300 Territorians have applied for its Home and Business Battery Scheme (HBBS) grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":44504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NT Home And Business Battery Scheme Update - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Northern Territory Government says more than 300 Territorians have applied for its Home and Business Battery Scheme (HBBS) grant.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nt-battery-grant-mb1747\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NT Home And Business Battery Scheme Update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Northern Territory Government says more than 300 Territorians have applied for its Home and Business Battery Scheme (HBBS) grant.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nt-battery-grant-mb1747\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-03T19:31:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nt-battery-scheme.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/nt-battery-grant-mb1747\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/nt-battery-grant-mb1747\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"NT Home And Business Battery Scheme Update\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-03T19:31:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/nt-battery-grant-mb1747\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":552,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/nt-battery-grant-mb1747\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/nt-battery-scheme.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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