The independent Climate Council, Smart Energy Council and community organisation Solar Citizens is urging the Albanese government to set a storage target instead of propping up current generation.
Solar Citizens head Heidi Lee Douglas said on Monday more than three million Australian households with solar panels on their roofs have protected themselves from surging gas and coal prices.
Governments should enable more people to take up solar with a storage target that incentivises home or community batteries, including technology to send spare electric car power to the electricity grid, she said.
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