Solar panels everywhere in Australia

Walk down any residential street in Australia and you will see rooftop solar panels. Postcode 3029 in western Melbourne has more than any other area.

“If you walk along the streets, it's actually hard to see a house without solar panels”

Record installations in postcode 3029

More than twenty eight thousand solar systems have been installed in Melbourne postcode 3029 since two thousand and one, according to Australia's Clean Energy Regulator.

Australia leads the world in solar

Australia generates more electricity per person from solar panels than anywhere else in the world, making postcode 3029 the poster child for residential solar.

Four million homes have solar systems

About four million homes and small businesses have rooftop solar in Australia. About thirty six percent of households have a system, with two thousand twenty six on track to be a record year.

Government subsidies drive adoption

For more than twenty years, the Australian government has been issuing certificates to homes and businesses that erect rooftop solar, cutting the upfront costs.

High prices and low regulations help

Relatively high electricity prices together with less onerous regulations than other countries, particularly the United States, are reasons why Australians have adopted solar enthusiastically.

Record quarter for installations

In the second quarter of this year, records were broken in every Australian state for installations, with one hundred and two thousand two hundred and thirty four systems installed on roofs, the highest quarter on…

Solar now supplies fourteen percent

Ten years ago, rooftop solar generated less than three percent of Australia's electricity while coal supplied seventy five percent.

Solar transforms the electricity system

Rooftop solar has fundamentally changed the electricity system and given millions of consumers a more active role in how they produce and use electricity, and now store it with residential batteries.

“There are more rooftop solar systems in Australia than there are swimming pools in backyards”

Solar supplies over forty percent midday

In the national electricity market, rooftop solar now routinely supplies more than forty percent of the electricity used during the middle of the day. On some days, it peaks above sixty percent.

Batteries cut household bills dramatically

Households with solar and batteries had bills between twenty percent and fifty two percent lower than regular electricity customers. Those in virtual power plants had bills fifty seven percent to sixty three percent lower.

Australia pledges to double global solar

This week in Fiji, Australia became the first country to endorse a global voluntary pledge to double the number of homes with rooftop solar from one hundred and fifty million to three hundred million by…

“Rooftop solar is the sleeping giant of global climate diplomacy”

Solar Citizens pushes for more growth

Heidi Lee Douglas, chief executive of Solar Citizens, says rooftop solar is politically popular and appeals to people because of cost of living benefits and energy security.

“This is going to create a billion solar citizens”