‘Changing ground rules’: Fury over bill change that could burst the battery boom

SMH · Mike Foley, Nick Toscano · Friday 24 April 2026

‘Changing ground rules’: Fury over bill change that could burst the battery boom

Governments spent billions of dollars to encourage home owners to buy batteries, but advocates say a change from the energy market rule-maker will cut uptake.

Billions out the door to get batteries on the roof, and the rule-maker's just moved the goalposts while the ball's in the air. Classic Canberra choreography — one department writes the cheque, another writes the fine print that cashes it back. The subsidy giveth and the tariff taketh away, and the punter's left holding a lithium brick wondering which arm of government to thank.

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