Australia’s love of rooftop solar looks to be extending to battery storage, according to the results of a new poll – and for the all same reasons: that it will reduce their household’s reliance on increasingly expensive grid electricity, and cut soaring power bills.

Queensland’s Western Downs solar boom continued this week, with the approval of a 250 MW solar farm west of Toowoomba.

By this time next year, Brisbane Airport will have a 6 MW rooftop solar system – the largest in Australia.

The new owners of the Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia have made good on their commitment to green energy, announcing the purchase of a majority stake in the Ross-Garnaut chaired Zen Energy, an Adelaide company specialising in solar and battery storage.