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\"AI rented most of my adult life. I left home at 18, bought my first home at 32, struggled with a mortgage for three years, then sold it to start SolarQuotes. It was another four years before I bought again, only after SolarQuotes started doing well enough.<\/p>\n

So I know what it’s like renting, especially the frustration of watching energy bills continue to climb\u00a0without being able to install solar, batteries or insulation to fight back.<\/p>\n

Installing solar panels on rental properties could reduce tenants’ electricity bills. Industry and government have tried to do just this. Australia has seen well-meaning schemes like Victoria\u2019s Solar Homes rental initiative<\/a>, the Queensland Government\u2019s Solar For Rentals<\/a>, and startups like Matter<\/a>, but they’ve all hit the same wall: landlords.<\/p>\n

The Great Wall Of Landlords<\/h2>\n

Most Australian landlords treat their rental properties as lines on a spreadsheet. They’re focused on one thing: cutting expenses and maximising rental income. Even if installing solar clearly boosts the property’s rental yield<\/a> (by increasing rent or selling solar power back to tenants), landlords rarely go for it. Many are already juggling tight cash flows and won’t spend extra upfront unless absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n

At the same time, tenants understandably won’t spend thousands to improve a property they don’t own. So solar rarely ends up on rental rooftops, despite its typical 3-5 year payback.<\/p>\n

But I’m here to say renters don’t need solar panels over their heads. They can use their neighbours’ excess solar.<\/p>\n

And that’s because electricity retailers now offer special tariffs designed to help soak up the oversupply of solar energy from those neighbours. io Energy<\/a>, for example, charges just 8c per kWh from 10am to 4pm in SA. OVO Energy<\/a> offers free electricity from 11am to 2pm.<\/p>\n

But these plans come with crippling peak prices in the evening (an eye-watering 75c for io Energy, 65c for OVO). This means batteries become essential, letting tenants store cheap daytime energy to ride through the extortionate evening peak period.<\/p>\n

Batteries That Can Move House<\/h2>\n

The key to making this work is affordable, portable batteries. Currently, the installation fee for installing a home battery starts at around $1,500, and tenants understandably don’t want to pay this twice every time they move (to uninstall and then reinstall).<\/p>\n

But imagine if every home\u2019s switchboard had a simple, standardised battery socket. Combined with a specially designed home battery, home battery installation could be as simple as plugging in an EV.<\/p>\n

Removing home backup requirements from this new standardised battery socket1<\/a><\/sup> and mass-producing a portable but high-capacity ‘renters battery’ would keep costs down.<\/p>\n

Tenants could then buy a battery, plug it directly into the upgraded switchboard, and easily unplug and take it with them when they move.<\/p>\n

One problem: landlords won\u2019t pay for the socket upgrade. Realistically, it would need to be mandatory for rentals or taxpayer-funded.<\/p>\n

Another snag: home battery prices aren\u2019t yet low enough to tempt most renters – but they\u2019re dropping rapidly, with battery cells down 90% in the last decade alone. Establishing plug-and-play switchboard standards now positions us perfectly for when battery prices become irresistible.<\/p>\n

Forget solar panels on rentals. Let’s help renters directly by giving them affordable, portable batteries and easy access to the cheap solar energy already flooding Australia’s grid. Everyone wins.<\/p>\n

Phase Shift is a weekly opinion column from SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock, in which he shares his views on all things home electrification.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more on home battery costs today, read this comprehensive guide<\/a>, or for detail on how solar panels are actually a good investment for landlords, read this explainer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rented most of my adult life. I left home at 18, bought my first home at 32, struggled with a mortgage for three years, then sold it to start SolarQuotes. 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