{"id":89862,"date":"2025-02-25T05:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=89862"},"modified":"2025-02-25T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:06:48","slug":"wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Labor Pledges Big Home Battery Rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wa-battery-rebate.jpg\" alt=\"Western Australia solar battery rebate\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wa-battery-rebate.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wa-battery-rebate-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wa-battery-rebate-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wa-battery-rebate-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Western Australia&#8217;s Cook Labor Government has announced very generous subsidies for home batteries should it be returned to office.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming WA State Election will be held on Saturday 8 March 2025 and the two major parties formally kicked off their campaigns on the weekend. A significant voting force to woo are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/australia\/solar-power-wa\/\">Western Australia&#8217;s solar owners<\/a>, with more than half a million small-scale rooftop PV systems installed in the state to date.<\/p>\n<p>Current Premier Roger Cook has announced WA Labor will implement a $387 million program to provide one-off home battery rebates of up to $5,000 for Synergy customers and up to $7,500 for Horizon Power customers &#8211; if Labor regains power.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cook said this is expected to deliver more than 200 megawatt- hours of storage to WA&#8217;s electricity grid. Or to put it another way, around 20,000 batteries of 10 kWh storage capacity. Estimates vary, but as at mid-last year around 10,000 residential batteries had been installed in WA.<\/p>\n<p>The finer details of this program are yet to be unveiled and no doubt there will be some devil in the detail, but what we know at this point is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The value of the rebate is to be determined by the size (capacity) of the battery.<\/li>\n<li>Batteries must meet Australian and local grid standards.<\/li>\n<li>Existing recognised brands as well as locally manufactured batteries (more on this in a bit) will be included.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme will kick off on 1 July 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Supercharging household batteries will revolutionise our electricity grid, allowing us to ramp up renewable energy, slash power bills and create quality manufacturing jobs for WA\u2019s future,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogercook.com.au\/media\/wa-labor-to-power-up-cost-of-living-relief-with-home-battery-scheme\">said Mr. Cook<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<h2>Interest-Free Solar Battery Loans<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the rebate, there will a no-interest loan element of up to $10,000, which can be repaid over up to 10 years. Availability of the loans will be subject to means-testing and help up to 20,000 low- and medium-income households.<\/p>\n<h2>Battery Manufacturing Support<\/h2>\n<p>A re-elected Cook Labor Government will also fund a $50 million Battery Manufacturing Program providing direct grants and low-interest loans. Whether &#8220;manufacturing&#8221; may include activities as simple as assembling batteries here isn&#8217;t clear as no further details of this aspect have been released that I&#8217;m aware of.<\/p>\n<h2>Meanwhile, A Valley Of Death?<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that subsidies are on the cards for Western Australian solar owners. More household batteries installed will have wider benefits for WA&#8217;s electricity networks; benefiting all.<\/p>\n<p>But it mightn&#8217;t be good news for residential solar and energy storage businesses in WA for the next few months if there&#8217;s no backdating of the incentive. With a subsidy so generous being dangled, it will likely result in a reduction in sales now &#8211; and until closer to July if WA Labor is returned to power. Then it will be a case of famine rapidly changing to a feast, and *good* installers will be hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p>If Labor fails in its re-election bid and the WA Liberals *don&#8217;t* make any battery-related commitments, then it could be a very short stay in the &#8220;valley of death&#8221;. But indications are it&#8217;s an election WA Labor will win.<\/p>\n<p>At a federal level, there have also been whispers of Labor and the Coalition pitching national program pledges in the leadup to the federal election, although those rumours (and that&#8217;s all they are at this point) have been mainly around no-interest loans.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re considering home energy storage, get up to speed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/101-guides\/understanding-solar\/\">understanding<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">buying<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/101-guides\/owning-solar\/\">owning<\/a> a solar battery so you&#8217;re ready to hit the ground running whatever the outcome. Or for everything you need to know in a single document, check out SQ&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\">home battery guide<\/a>. It includes a very handy feature where you can compare specifications and pricing of various models from popular brands side-by-side.<\/p>\n<p>And to stay up to date with what&#8217;s happening in WA (and across Australia), sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/weekly-newsletter.html\">SolarQuotes weekly newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Australia&#8217;s Cook Labor Government has announced very generous subsidies for home batteries should it be returned to office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":89863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89862","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 v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WA Labor Pledges Big Home Battery Rebates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Western Australia&#039;s Cook Labor Government has announced very generous subsidies for home batteries should it be returned to office.\" \/>\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\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WA Labor Pledges Big Home Battery Rebates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Western Australia&#039;s Cook Labor Government has announced very generous subsidies for home batteries should it be returned to office.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-02-24T19:44:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-24T22:06:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wa-battery-rebate.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\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"WA Labor Pledges Big Home Battery Rebates\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-24T19:44:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-24T22:06:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/\"},\"wordCount\":660,\"commentCount\":7,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wa-battery-rebate.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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