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A Sigenergy home battery installed by Stag Electrical Solar and Refrigeration ACT<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Home batteries lower greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, you’re a complete nutter and use a battery to deliberately raise them in an attempt to cook the planet.\u00a0 But this ruins the savings, so only a complete loony would try it.<\/p>\n

Below, I’m going to explain the two main ways home batteries reduce emissions \u2014 directly through normal use, and indirectly by making it easier to add more renewable generation and close down coal power stations.\u00a0 I’ll also explain why you shouldn’t charge your battery from an overnight off-peak rate if you care about emissions.\u00a0 That is, if you care about reducing them.<\/p>\n

And if you are a complete nutter, then you should read on so you can do the opposite.<\/p>\n

How Do Home Batteries Lower Emissions?<\/h2>\n

Home batteries store clean energy that can be used later in place of fossil fuels.\u00a0 The clean energy normally comes from rooftop solar, but can come from the grid.\u00a0 When discharged at night, batteries almost always reduce coal and gas generation.<\/p>\n

If power from rooftop solar is used to charge a home battery rather than sent into the grid, this can raise emissions by causing coal and gas generators to increase output to make up the difference.\u00a0 But thanks to expanding solar capacity, it’s becoming increasingly likely that charging a home battery will simply prevent clean energy from going to waste, rather than boost fossil fuel generation.<\/p>\n

In normal use, a home battery decreases emissions by more than it occasionally increases them.\u00a0 But that’s not their only benefit.\u00a0 Home batteries also indirectly cut emissions by making it easier to add more solar and wind capacity to the grid, while hurting the economics of coal and gas generation.\u00a0 Because they can supply power on demand, with enough battery capacity and solar panels to charge them, entire coal power stations can<\/a> \u2014 and will \u2014 be closed down.<\/p>\n

SA Leads The Way<\/h2>\n

\"South<\/p>\n

The state getting the largest portion of its electricity from solar and wind, and with the most battery capacity per person, is South Australia.\u00a0 Above is a graph from Open Electricity<\/a> showing its consumption on Saturday, October 18.\u00a0 Rooftop solar, displayed in light yellow, produced enough power to meet the state’s entire electricity demand around noon.\u00a0 There was also a considerable amount of wind power, shown in green, which allowed power to be exported to Victoria late at night and contributed to exports during the day.\u00a0 Battery power is dark blue, and you can see it meeting demand in both the early morning and the late afternoon and early evening.\u00a0 At 7:00 pm, Adelaide time, batteries met 28.6%1<\/a><\/sup> of state demand, which is close to a world record.\u00a0 California has gone higher than that, but Californians being high is nothing new.<\/p>\n

Gas generation is various shades of orange.\u00a0 The only reason any was used in the middle of the day or late at night was because it was used to help provide grid stability.\u00a0 While gas consumption rose in the evening, it remained much lower than it would have been, thanks to battery power.<\/p>\n

What the graph doesn’t show is that, at around noon, several hundred megawatts of solar power that could have been generated weren’t.\u00a0 This clean generation was curtailed, which means it was intentionally reduced.\u00a0 So if a home battery was charged while clean energy was effectively going to waste, it wouldn’t have resulted in any increase in fossil fuel generation.\u00a0 Instead, it would have resulted in less solar energy being wasted.<\/p>\n

While South Australia is ahead, it won’t be long before all states are regularly meeting over a quarter of their demand with batteries, and those batteries will mostly be charged with solar energy.<\/p>\n

Solar’s Effect On Emissions<\/h2>\n

Australia has lots of sunshine and plenty of solar panels.\u00a0 Over the past year they provided 21% of Australia’s electricity.\u00a0 Two-thirds from rooftops and the rest from large-scale solar farms.\u00a0 This clean daytime generation is a huge headache for coal power stations.\u00a0 Because shutting down and starting up again is expensive<\/a>, coal generators are regularly forced to reduce output to the lowest level they can manage during the day for extended periods.\u00a0 At these times, they normally operate at a loss, while gas generation — which is much easier to start and stop — almost entirely disappears.<\/p>\n

Below is another graph from Open Electricity<\/a>, showing generation for Australia as a whole for Monday, September 29.\u00a0 It shows light yellow rooftop solar going strong in the middle of the day, along with dark yellow solar farms.\u00a0 Black and brown coal are forced to cut back during the day, but go strong at night.\u00a0 The orange of gas generation is barely visible during the day, while green wind and light blue hydro contribute during the day and night.\u00a0 Because there was some rain, there’s more hydro generation than usual.<\/p>\n

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Power from batteries discharging is dark blue and, for a short time, they met over 7% of Australia’s power consumption on this Monday evening.<\/p>\n

The daytime solar surge greatly reduces average emissions per kilowatt-hour (kWh) generated.\u00a0 The graph below, also from Open Electricity, shows NSW’s emission intensity over the same period as the graph above.\u00a0 Using Australian Eastern Standard Time, it ranges from a high of 0.721kg of CO2 per kWh at 3.30 am, to a low of 0.265kg per kWh during the day at 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/p>\n

And here’s what it looked like in NSW over several days:<\/p>\n

\"NSW<\/p>\n

Emissions per kWh are reduced during the day, rise in the late afternoon, and remain high until an hour or so after sunrise.\u00a0 In Queensland and WA, emissions follow a roughly similar pattern.\u00a0 In Victoria, the pattern isn’t as strong, as it has the least solar and cloudiest weather of all mainland states.\u00a0 In SA, emissions in the day often drop close to zero, as this graph shows:<\/p>\n

\"South<\/p>\n

In Tasmania, there’s no real pattern at all, thanks to that state’s massive amount of hydro power and a considerable amount of wind generation.\u00a0 But solar still helps reduce emissions by allowing increased electricity exports to Victoria.<\/p>\n

The average daytime emissions intensity in all states will only decline as more solar is installed.<\/p>\n

Clean Energy Is Often Wasted<\/h2>\n

In NSW on Tuesday, September 30, the average emissions from 9 am in the morning to 3 pm in the afternoon averaged about 200g per kWh.\u00a0 From 5 pm in the afternoon to 7 am the next morning, the average was around 630g per kWh.<\/p>\n

\"Graph<\/p>\n

So, going by the averages, and ignoring losses, if a home battery was charged during the 6 hour daytime period and discharged in the 14 hour period starting in the late afternoon, each kWh of stored energy discharged would reduce emissions by 630g minus 200g, for a total reduction of 430g per kWh.\u00a0\u00a0While there may be times it works out that way, emission reductions will normally average higher than this because a considerable amount of clean energy, both solar and wind, is curtailed and effectively wasted.<\/p>\n

The graph below shows South Australian generation over 4 days.\u00a0 On each day, there’s a considerable amount of rooftop solar generation, shown in light yellow.\u00a0 On the first day, Wednesday, there’s also a considerable amount of dark yellow solar farm generation.\u00a0 But on Thursday, there are clear signs of large-scale solar being curtailed, and on Friday and Saturday, it basically disappears in the middle of the day.<\/p>\n

\"Graph<\/p>\n

While curtailment of solar farm generation is common in South Australia, it also happens in other states.\u00a0 Wind power is also often curtailed.\u00a0 This happens for two main reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Insufficient transmission capacity:<\/strong> The grid isn’t able to get renewable energy to where it needs to go.<\/li>\n
  2. Economic:<\/strong> Solar and wind farms will reduce or stop generation if it saves money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If solar or wind power is being curtailed in your area, for either reason, then charging your battery won’t increase fossil fuel generation.\u00a0 Instead, it will cause renewable energy to be curtailed slightly less.\u00a0\u00a0Curtailment from insufficient transmission is most likely to let you charge without emissions in rural areas, while curtailment for economic reasons can occur everywhere.<\/p>\n

    Economic curtailment happens when wholesale electricity prices, which are what generators receive, go negative.\u00a0 This occurs when the grid receives too much power and, instead of being paid to supply electricity, generators have to pay to supply it.\u00a0 This provides a clear incentive to cut back.<\/p>\n

    It’s very easy for solar and wind farms to reduce output or shut down entirely, so if they’re not making enough to cover costs after all factors are considered, they will.\u00a0 But because it costs a fortune for coal power stations to stop and start, they normally operate at a loss in these periods.\u00a0 This means charging a battery during these times, whether from rooftop solar or the grid, won’t increase emissions because there’s clean renewable generation ready to take its place.<\/p>\n

    Solar and wind generation have no fuel cost, so if they are being curtailed, they’ll be brought back online before gas or coal are used, because both cost money.\u00a0 Even though Victorian brown coal is dirt cheap, digging it up is still an expense and mining royalties must be paid on every tonne.<\/p>\n

    In 2024, only about 2% of solar farm generation was curtailed for economic reasons.\u00a0 This isn’t a huge amount, but it mostly occurred around the middle of the day, and will increase over time.\u00a0 Wind power wasn’t curtailed by as much, but it still contributes to the amount of time batteries can be charged with zero contribution to emissions.<\/p>\n

    Update October 27, 2025:<\/strong> I wrote above that economic curtailment of solar farms in 2024 was only about 2%.\u00a0 But, as was kindly pointed out in the comments, it was more likely around 10%.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Rooftop Solar Also Gets Curtailed<\/h2>\n

    While I only mentioned solar and wind farms above, rooftop solar can also be curtailed.\u00a0 This can be done through flexible exports<\/a>, also called dynamic exports, which are common for new solar in SA and Queensland.\u00a0 They allow power from rooftop solar to be reduced when there’s more than the grid can easily accept.\u00a0 Also, if a house has a low or zero export limit, or simply has a large solar system, it can result in more solar power being produced than the home can use or export at the time.\u00a0 Regardless of the set up, charging a battery with solar power that would otherwise go to waste will not raise emissions.<\/p>\n

    Discharging At Night Cuts Fossil Fuel Generation<\/h2>\n

    Here’s a graph showing Queensland electricity generation on Saturday, October 11, through to 7 am on Sunday morning:<\/p>\n

    \"QLD<\/p>\n

    From 8 am in the morning until 4 pm in the afternoon, each kWh of electricity consumed in the state resulted in average emissions of around 340g of CO2, while from 5 pm in the afternoon to 7 am the next morning, emissions averaged around 740g per kWh.<\/p>\n

    Going by averages, charging a home battery with 1kWh during the day would result in 340g of emissions, plus some extra from losses.\u00a0 With 90% roundtrip battery efficiency, the total emissions would average around 380g.\u00a0 Discharging that 1kWh at night would reduce emissions by 740g and subtracting the 380g from charging gives a net average reduction of 360g of CO2 for every 1kWh discharged.<\/p>\n

    But that’s not what would actually happen.\u00a0 When it’s not curtailed, large-scale solar in Queensland typically provides close to half as much energy as rooftop.\u00a0 So, on this day, large-scale solar was clearly being curtailed and charging a battery would likely have resulted in zero emissions or close to it.<\/p>\n

    Also, when a battery is discharged at night, it won’t reduce emissions by the average amount.\u00a0 Each 1kWh discharged will normally reduce fossil fuel generation by 1kWh.\u00a0 This is because wind power’s fuel \u2014 moving air \u2014 is free, so it wouldn’t be reduced.\u00a0 While it’s possible hydro generation would be reduced, that would just leave water in the dam that would later be used in place of fossil fuels.\u00a0 Gas generation has a high fuel cost, so if it’s being used at the time, its output is normally cut first.\u00a0 Coal has a low, but not free fuel cost, and so gets reduced after gas does.<\/p>\n

    In Queensland, gas generation averages around 515g of emissions per kWh, while coal averages around 960g.\u00a0 Discharging a battery on this Saturday night would have reduced gas generation up until 9 pm.\u00a0 After this time, there was barely any gas generation, so battery power would reduce coal consumption.\u00a0 Whether gas or coal generation was reduced, the emission reductions of around either 515g or 960g when the battery was charged on a day that clean energy was curtailed, are much higher than the 360g reduction that going by the averages gives.<\/p>\n

    Sometimes Battery Charging Will Increase Emissions<\/h2>\n

    On the other hand, there will be times when charging a battery during the day will directly increase fossil fuel generation.\u00a0 The graph below shows NSW generation on Tuesday, October 7.<\/p>\n

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    As there was little or no curtailment of renewables, using 1kWh of energy from rooftop solar to charge a battery rather than sending it into the grid, it would raise coal generation by 1kwh.\u00a0 While this stored energy would reduce emissions when discharged at night, efficiency losses mean emissions would be higher than if the battery hadn’t been used at all.\u00a0 Fortunately, reductions in emissions from battery use greatly outweigh the occasional increases.<\/p>\n

    Battery Emission Reductions Will Increase<\/h2>\n

    At the moment, discharging a battery will, almost always, reduce either gas or coal generation.\u00a0 If gas generation is reduced, the emissions reductions will, very roughly, be around half as much as if coal generation is reduced.\u00a0 But over the past year, gas only supplied 7.1% of the nation’s electricity.\u00a0 Because natural gas is expensive, batteries are rapidly taking its place and it won’t be too long before gas is under 2% of generation.\u00a0 This means, when you discharge your battery, it will be increasingly likely to directly reduce coal generation.<\/p>\n

    Eventually, emissions savings from additional battery capacity will reduce as coal power is driven off the grid, but that’s a way off, and any batteries you buy now will do a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to emission reductions.<\/p>\n

    Don’t Charge Your Battery At Night<\/h2>\n

    Some people buy home batteries with the intention of charging them with solar during the day and charging them again at night from the grid using an off-peak tariff.\u00a0 This is a bad move for the environment because each 1kWh of charging late at night generally increases coal generation by 1kWh plus around an extra 10% due to losses.\u00a0 You’ll do a considerably better job of cutting emissions by buying a battery that, at minimum, is large enough to meet your typical electricity consumption from late afternoon, all through the night, and into the early morning.\u00a0 If you do need to charge from the grid, it’s much better from an emissions point of view to do it in the day.\u00a0 It also makes more economic sense to buy a larger battery and charge it with cheap solar electricity than try to get by with a smaller battery that gets grid-charged at night.<\/p>\n

    Batteries Won’t Help Coal<\/h2>\n

    If batteries are charged during the day, this will increase the demand for electricity and raise daytime wholesale prices.\u00a0 Because coal power stations often struggle during the day, operating at minimum output and at a loss, it looks like batteries should help coal power.\u00a0 And if that’s all that batteries did, it would be true.\u00a0 But, overall, batteries are very bad for coal for two main reasons:<\/p>\n

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    1. They lower electricity prices overnight.<\/li>\n
    2. They make it easier to add more solar and wind generation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Coal power stations are able to survive increasing periods during the day where they’re forced to operate at a loss by making a profit from higher wholesale prices at night.\u00a0 But by discharging from late afternoon until after sunrise the next day, batteries are driving down wholesale electricity prices at these times and ruining coal’s profitability.<\/p>\n

      Batteries also make it easier to add more renewable generating capacity to the grid, and most of this will be solar.\u00a0 Under 3kW of rooftop solar are required, on average, to fully charge 10kWh of batteries.\u00a0 So, provided we install at least 1kW of solar panels for every 3kWh of usable battery capacity, we won’t have any trouble fully charging them with solar on most days.\u00a0 This is especially true, since most batteries aren’t completely drained overnight and so don’t have to be fully charged each day.\u00a0 This financial year, Australia will add around 5 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of large-scale batteries and perhaps 4GWh or more<\/a> of home and business batteries, for a total of about 9GWh.\u00a0 We’ll also install around 5.5 gigawatts (GW) of solar.\u00a0 This means there will be around 6kW of solar added for every 10kWh of usable battery capacity, so we’ll have no problem keeping batteries charged with solar, even on winter days with below average solar output.<\/p>\n

      On top of all that, we’ll be getting around 7GWh of batteries in electric vehicles, but because these are used at a low average capacity factor of under 15%, there will be no problem charging all new batteries with solar.<\/p>\n

      Batteries driving wholesale electricity prices lower at night, combined with expanding solar generation during the day, is driving coal power out of the market. Coal power stations won’t all shut down at once, because when one closes, it raises wholesale electricity prices in the short term.\u00a0 But they will go, and it will happen sooner than currently planned.<\/p>\n

      VPPs Can Speed Coal Closures<\/h2>\n

      If you want to give a small boost to the rate at which coal plants close and to the financial return from your battery<\/a>, you can join a Virtual Power Plant (VPP)<\/a>.\u00a0 This will allow the VPP operator to, at times, use your battery to make themselves money.\u00a0 How much money a VPP will make from a typical battery is hard to say, but it will average to considerably more than what they’ll give you.\u00a0 While I can understand wanting to keep more of that money for yourself, the more money they make, the better it is from an environmental point of view, as it’s all money that won’t be going to fossil fuel generation.\u00a0 Joining a VPP also makes grid managers a little more confident about how much battery power will be available if it’s needed, and makes them more likely to allow coal power station closures.<\/p>\n

      Having an electricity plan<\/a> that exposes you to wholesale electricity prices and allows you to buy and sell electricity using your battery, such as Amber Electric<\/a>, can also help speed coal closures by making the economics of fossil fuel generation worse \u2014 provided you manage to sell high and buy low more times than you do the opposite.<\/p>\n

      Home Batteries Better Than Big Ones At Cutting Emissions<\/h2>\n

      Batteries, both large and small, are currently reducing greenhouse gas emissions right now in Australia.\u00a0 But home batteries are doing a better job than large-scale utility batteries.\u00a0 Because home batteries are generally used every day, they operate at a higher capacity factor.\u00a0 At the moment, the typical home battery might discharge an average of around 70% of its capacity overnight, giving a capacity factor of 70%.\u00a0 This figure will be heading down because of the increase in average home battery size since the federal battery rebate<\/a> began in July, but it will still be far higher than for large-scale batteries.<\/p>\n

      It’s difficult to compare the two because many utility-scale batteries are used to provide ancillary services that help keep the grid stable rather than buy and sell electricity on the wholesale market.\u00a0 But looking at the ones that do engage in electricity arbitrage, their average capacity factor appears to be under 20%, making the capacity factor of home batteries over three times higher.\u00a0 This low capacity factor appears to be due to chasing high wholesale prices, rather than consistently being used every night to avoid paying retail electricity prices.<\/p>\n

      The Big Picture<\/h2>\n

      Batteries are dispatchable and so can supply power on demand.\u00a0 When combined with solar and wind generation, they allow entire coal power stations to be closed down.\u00a0 While it takes a lot of batteries to do that, we are installing a hell of a lot of them, while also installing a massive amount of solar.\u00a0 It will take time to completely drive coal off the grid, but thanks to the falling cost of solar and batteries, it will happen sooner than many expect.<\/p>\n

      But there’s no need to look at the big picture.\u00a0 You don’t have to pay any attention to how batteries transform the grid so it operates around renewable energy rather than fossil fuels.\u00a0 Simply using a home battery in a way that saves you money cuts emissions, whether or not you give a toss about what’s going on with the rest of the grid.\u00a0 Just remember that both your bank balance and the environment will be better off if your battery is large enough to usually supply your entire overnight consumption, without any need to charge overnight.<\/p>\n

      This is the first in a two-part series on how batteries reduce emissions. To get the follow-up piece emailed to you, sign up to SolarQuotes’ free weekly newsletter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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