{"id":90608,"date":"2025-03-20T04:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=90608"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T02:59:40","slug":"wa-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Home Battery Rebate: New Details Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wa-residential-battery.jpg\" alt=\"WA Residential Battery Scheme\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wa-residential-battery.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wa-residential-battery-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wa-residential-battery-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wa-residential-battery-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now the dust has settled after Western Australia&#8217;s state election, a little more detail has provided about the Cook Government&#8217;s upcoming WA Residential Battery Scheme.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Among WA Labor&#8217;s pledges in the lead-up to the state election was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-battery-rebate-pledge-mb3124\/\"> $387 million program<\/a> to provide non-means-tested home battery rebates of up to $5,000 for Synergy customers and up to $7,500 for Horizon Power customers, along with a means-tested no-interest loan option. The rebate will be available for residential properties in Western Australia, including home business customers.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, further details were published by the WA Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety; but there will be more guidelines to come.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is to be rolled out in several rounds, with the first commencing on or before 1 July 2025. It will be administered by a yet un-named third-party service provider with a track record of delivery of similar schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The rebate for Synergy customers will be $500 per kilowatt- hour and $750 per kilowatt-hour for Horizon Power customers for up to 10 kWh of battery capacity.<\/p>\n<h2>Battery System Eligibility<\/h2>\n<p>At this point the only eligibility requirements are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New, additional and replacement home battery systems with minimum 5kWh storage capacity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/virtual-power-plants\/\"> Virtual Power Plant (VPP)<\/a> readiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional minimum standards and system warranty provisions will apply, which are to be developed in consultation with industry.<\/p>\n<h2>No-Interest Loans Can Incorporate Solar Panels<\/h2>\n<p>New, additional and replacement solar panels will also be eligible for no-interest loans in situations where installation is occurring as part of a solar + storage package purchase. Loan eligibility will be limited to households below a specified income threshold, with both minimum solar system size and income threshold yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum loan amount will be $2,000 and the maximum, $10,000; which Premier Cook previously said can be repaid over 10 years.<\/p>\n<h2>For Installers And Retailers<\/h2>\n<p>Accreditation and compliance arrangements are still to be fleshed out and will be developed in consultation with industry, but here&#8217;s what we know so far &#8211; which isn&#8217;t much.<\/p>\n<p>First, retailers and installers wanting to participate in the scheme must have a business address in Western Australia. And whatever financial, integrity, technical and safety standards are settled on must be continuously met, along with a demonstrated capacity to deliver. Participating businesses will be subject to compliance audit testing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the concerns about such generous incentives is it can jack up the prices of solar gear. Under this program, previous pricing is to be published before each round of rebates for full disclosure; but the finer details of how that will work is also yet to be developed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wa.gov.au\/organisation\/energy-policy-wa\/wa-residential-battery-scheme\">WA Residential Battery Scheme<\/a> is expected to benefit up to 19,000 Synergy and up to 1,000 Horizon customers. Installers will no doubt be very busy when it kicks in, but between now and then it could be slim pickings for them &#8211;\u00a0 an issue that has already been raised with the Cook Government.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re considering adding solar power and\/or battery storage to your home in Western Australia, should you hold off? What if you&#8217;re in another state and waiting to see what Labor and the Coalition may offer as federal election sweeteners? And on a related note, might there be an opportunity for WA households to double-dip?<\/p>\n<p>SolarQuotes Founder Finn Peacock recently explained why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/waiting-for-battery-rebates-costs-more\/\">waiting for rebates could cost you more<\/a>, but how some households may be able have their cake and eat it too. Whatever you decide to do, learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/comparison-table\/\">everything you need to know about home batteries<\/a> before signing on any dotted line. And to stay up-to-date with what&#8217;s happening, subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/weekly-newsletter.html\">SolarQuotes weekly newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the dust has settled after Western Australia&#8217;s state election, a little more detail has provided about the Cook Government&#8217;s upcoming WA Residential Battery Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":90609,"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-90608","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 Home Battery Rebate: New Details Revealed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Now the dust has settled after Western Australia&#039;s election, more detail has provided about the upcoming WA Residential Battery Scheme.\" \/>\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-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WA Home Battery Rebate: New Details Revealed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now the dust has settled after Western Australia&#039;s election, more detail has provided about the upcoming WA Residential Battery Scheme.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-03-19T18:53:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-20T02:59:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wa-residential-battery.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-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"WA Home Battery Rebate: New Details Revealed\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-19T18:53:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-20T02:59:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141\/\"},\"wordCount\":608,\"commentCount\":8,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-residential-battery-rebate-mb3141\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/wa-residential-battery.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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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. 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But more than half of buyers appear to be foregoing it or otherwise missing out. How Many Home Batteries Have Been Installed In WA? 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