Home Batteries 101: How to Cut Your Power Bill

Score Government Rebates, and Even Make Money From Your Roof

If someone had asked me about home batteries a few weeks ago, I probably would've thought they were talking about the ones in my TV remote.

But with electricity prices rising, government rebates on offer, and more Australians looking for ways to cut household costs, I figured it was time to learn what all the fuss is about.

So in this week's episode of Get Rich, I sat down with Leigh Storr, Founder of RESINC, an award-winning national renewable energy company for a Home Batteries 101 session.

Here's what we covered:

- The Australian government rebate that could knock up to $6,500 off your home battery install

- The three free hours of electricity now available to Australians in NSW, VIC and Southeast QLD and how to make the most of them

- How a home battery can actually earn you money through something called a virtual power plant

- How to get solar panels and a home battery in Australia for zero upfront cost

- What happens to your power when the grid goes down (good news: you're fine)

One thing that surprised me? Some Australian households are turning their battery into a bit of a side hustle, selling excess energy back into the grid when demand is high.

If you've ever wondered whether a home battery could lower your power bills in Australia, help protect you from blackouts, or simply make your home more energy independent, this episode is worth a listen.

As always, this isn't about rushing out and buying something. It's about understanding your options, running the numbers, and making informed decisions with your money. 🎧

Want to find out if a home battery makes sense for your home? The RESINC team has put together a special offer for the LFC community - check it out here.

  

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Introduction: What Australian Homeowners Need to Know About Home Batteries
01:24 - What Does a Home Battery Actually Do? A Simple Explainer for Australian Homes
02:15 - Do You Need Solar Panels to Get a Home Battery in Australia?
02:39 - Free Electricity in Australia: The Solar Share Program Explained
03:59 - How Much Power Does the Average Australian Home Use Per Day?
04:35 - How Much Does a Home Battery Cost in Australia?
06:09 - How Home Batteries Work Automatically (Including Blackout Protection)
07:08 - Home Batteries and Storm Blackouts: Real Stories from Queensland
08:07 - Australian Government Rebates for Home Batteries: The Cheaper Home Battery Program
09:08 - How to Get Solar and a Battery for Zero Upfront Cost: Green Loans Explained
10:38 - Return on Investment: How Long Does a Home Battery Take to Pay Itself Off?
11:46 - How Home Batteries Protect You From Rising Petrol Prices and Energy Crises
12:49 - Virtual Power Plants in Australia: How to Earn Money From Your Home Battery
15:09 - How the Virtual Power Plant App Works (and How Passive It Can Be)
16:05 - How Long Does a Home Battery Installation Take?
16:24 - The Biggest Mistake Australians Make When Buying a Home Battery
17:25 - Can You Take Your Battery With You When You Move House?
18:20 - Should You Get a Home Battery in Australia? Leigh's Final Advice
19:17 - Where to Find RESINC and the Special LFC Community Offer  

 

 

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TRANSCRIPT

[00:00:00] Hey, it's Molly here for another episode of Get Rich, the podcast that helps you do just that, get rich and stay rich. Now, we are talking all things batteries today, and not the type you put in your remote control. We're talking home batteries. And before this conversation, I couldn't have told you anything about batteries, and now I feel like I've got a really good understanding.

[00:00:21] So today, I'm sitting down and I'm chatting with Leigh from Resinc. Now, this is one of Australia's highest-rated and most awarded solar company. Literally every time I speak to him, I feel like they've just finished winning an award. And he's gonna be breaking down all the stuff we need to know about batteries.

[00:00:36] So we cover what home batteries actually do, how they work with solar, most importantly, what they cost, and the government rebates available, plus how long they take to pay for themselves, and whether it's actually worth the investment. We also cover some other really interesting topics of things I'd never even heard about, like virtual power plants, where you can actually earn money from your batteries by selling it back to the grid and protecting yourself from blackouts, and how batteries can help reduce your electricity bill massively.

[00:01:04] So if you've ever wondered whether a home battery is for you or you're simply battery curious, this episode is gonna be one I think you will enjoy. Remember, if you haven't checked it out yet, head over to our website and look at our brand-new fancy directory. So this is a place that you can connect with different financial experts.

[00:01:24] So think of us as your financial matchmaker. All right. Let's really get into it All right, Leigh , welcome back to the podcast. We're excited to have you on to talk all things Batteries 101.

[00:01:37] Fantastic. Great to be back on, Molly.

[00:01:39] Now, it was really cute. When I put on the Instagram that I was gonna be talking to you and, "Does anyone have questions about batteries?"

[00:01:45] someone was like, "Yeah, how do we recycle them?" Like, and I was like, "No, no, no, wrong battery. We're talking about home batteries today." So I guess really in simple terms, to kick us off, Leigh, what does a home battery actually do?

[00:01:58] Well, very simple terms, home battery will allow you to capture your excess solar power, put it into the battery during the afternoon when you're potentially not at home or not using much power, and then in the evening and overnight draw that power back out of your battery for use in the home.

[00:02:11] Awesome. So we're obviously saving on our electricity bill.

[00:02:14] Of course.

[00:02:15] And do you have to, I'm assuming you have to have solar panels to have a battery.

[00:02:20] Technically you don't. Oh. Uh, under the current incentive schemes and rebates you do. Okay. So they like to have a home that is generating its own power to fill the battery.

[00:02:30] Mm-hmm.

[00:02:30] Um, however, we've got some very interesting things coming up for the, the Australian, uh, consumer. Mm-hmm. We've got three hours for free power in, uh, Victoria, New South Wales, and South East Queensland.

[00:02:39] Great.

[00:02:40] Means if you've got a battery that, uh, you wanted to charge from the grid during the afternoon between the hours of 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM, you potentially could.

[00:02:48] Oh, wow, okay. And guys, just to like emphasize that, 'cause that's a pretty big, big deal, which I feel like is not getting enough kind of like airplay. Like, obviously it is for New South Wales, Victoria, and South East Queensland, but that's three free hours of electricity. So you can like charge your car, you can like put your timers on for the dishwasher, the washing machine.

[00:03:09] And Leigh, why is the government giving us free power?

[00:03:11] Absolutely. So we, we've got, uh, excess power during the days now, so the actual spot market price of electricity is dropping to zero or sometimes below zero. And on a nice sunny day, there's so much solar power going into the grid from all of the homes.

[00:03:25] We've got four and a half million homes that have adopted solar already- Wow ... as well as businesses. And there's a lot of homes generating more than their own power and feeding back to the grid. So they call it the Solar Share program-

[00:03:35] Yeah ...

[00:03:35] where people that have solar are able to share the power with neighbors, with energy retailers providing three hours of free power.

[00:03:41] So it means if you've got solar, you can use even more power, especially on a wet day, uh, if there's n- not as much sunshine as you'd hope. Yeah. If you don't have solar, you've got that benefit of three hours of free power. Optimize, move your loads around that you can. Dishwasher, washing machine timers, you said it, Molly.

[00:03:57] Um-

[00:03:58] Great ...

[00:03:58] free power.

[00:03:59] Awesome. I'm not gonna pretend I know much about power, Leigh. I really don't. Frustrates my father. But how much, like, power would we be using in a day? Like, is it watts?

[00:04:10] Yeah. Kilowatt hours we talk.

[00:04:12] Kilowatt hours?

[00:04:13] Um, yeah. The average household's 20 to 25 kilowatt hours.

[00:04:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:04:16] Uh, but we see anyone from, anywhere from six to eight kilowatt hours on the low side- Mm

[00:04:21] all the way up to 150 to 200 kilowatt hours on the high side. So if you've got a nice big acreage house or a lot going on- Mm ... um, you might be up towards that 50 to 100 kilowatt hours in a day. Yeah. The average home, two, three-bedroom home is about that 20 kilowatt hours.

[00:04:35] Awesome. So what does it cost?

[00:04:38] Obviously, we're Ladies Finance Club, we wanna know what the cost is and the return of investment. Like, how much is the typical setup cost for a homeowner for a battery? And then we can talk about- Yeah ... maybe if the government gives you anything back or any rebates.

[00:04:52] Yeah. So for a residential home, you can be anywhere from $5,000 entry point for a battery all the way- Mm

[00:04:57] through to, say, 50,000 for a residential home.

[00:04:59] Wow.

[00:05:00] And rebates that come from that. So we've just installed and donated a system for a wish list here, a wish list freed house, and that's a 50 kilowatt hour battery, so that's towards that top end of the scale.

[00:05:11] Yeah.

[00:05:11] An average residential install, we're looking at about $10,000 as an entry point for a residential home.

[00:05:17] And how much power would that store, store?

[00:05:20] Yeah. So that'd be, say, 15, 20 kilowatt hours of storage. So for most homes, you can store the excess from your power generation during the day- Yeah ... pull it back up at night and be fairly grid independent most, most days.

[00:05:31] Yeah. 'Cause you just mentioned, uh, the average house uses 25, so then if you've got a battery of 20, and then you're using that, like you're using solar during the day- Yeah

[00:05:40] you'd probably be in surplus, right?

[00:05:42] Yeah. So if your solar system generates 25, 30 kilowatt hours in a day- Mm ... and you're using 20 to 25 throughout a 24-hour period- Is you may use 10 of those kilowatt hours during the sunlight hours-

[00:05:54] Yeah ...

[00:05:54] and then store another 15 into your battery overnight, and pull back that 15 as you get home from work, you're cooking dinner, you've got the TV on, the air conditioning on.

[00:06:03] Wake up in the morning, they're still charging your battery, make your breakfast. Yeah. And then the sun comes up and do it all over again.

[00:06:09] And do you physically have to switch it on or does it automatically know?

[00:06:13] No, it's all automatic. Even when the power goes out- Yeah ... so you've got power blackout protection.

[00:06:18] Yeah.

[00:06:18] Um, and that's an instantaneous changeover for most systems.

[00:06:21] Well, I know that was the big reason my parents wanted to get a battery because we had a really bad storm a few years ago in Queensland and we, they lost power for, like, seven days.

[00:06:31] Yeah, we had this-

[00:06:31] And the- ...

[00:06:31] in South East Queensland at the time, and seven-day- Yeah

[00:06:34] blackout was pretty common. Uh- Yeah ... we had friends up to 14, 14 days in the hinterlands.

[00:06:38] Yeah.

[00:06:39] And yeah, it's huge surge in batteries in South East Queensland as a result. A lot of customers up in Cairns as well, where they get cyclones more regularly.

[00:06:47] Yeah.

[00:06:48] And yeah, that's one of the great things about a battery is it saves you money, so you got a great- Yeah

[00:06:52] return on investment there. Uh, for the average household that's gonna be anywhere from four years to seven years for a battery generally. Yeah. And but it does depend on how much you utilize it and how big of the batteries you go. Yeah. And then blackout protection. When you do have a storm or when you have a power surge, you've got power there.

[00:07:08] Which we're seeing more and more of lately. And so let's say the power goes out, does your solar still work during the day? Can it still be putting into the battery or do you need initial power for it to work?

[00:07:20] So it depends on the design of your system. Okay. Yep. So we custom design every solution for the customer's needs.

[00:07:25] Okay.

[00:07:25] If you, generally, if you have the panels directly connected through a hybrid inverter, it's called- Mm-hmm ... and into the batteries, when there is a blackout, your system will continue running even when there's no power. The s- sun comes up, the solar comes on, continues to reboot-

[00:07:39] Wow ...

[00:07:40] power the home- That's cool

[00:07:40] replenish the batteries. And it can run in that mode off grid for as long as you have, uh, sufficient solar and battery power.

[00:07:47] Amazing. And can you, does solar still work on a gray day?

[00:07:51] It certainly does. It doesn't work as well- Okay ... when it's overcast and rainy.

[00:07:55] Yeah.

[00:07:55] Um, but solar works from the solar irradiation.

[00:07:58] So similar to how we get a sunburn on a overcast day. Mm-hmm. Your solar system will still generate power on an overcast day, just not as much as a nice sunny day.

[00:08:07] Okay. Awesome. And so are there any government incentives or rebates? I know there was one in Queensland, but what about for the rest of the country, are there any, like, rebates, deals we can get?

[00:08:21] There certainly is. There's what's called a cheaper home battery program rebate at the moment.

[00:08:26] Okay.

[00:08:26] And that's up to about six and a half thousand dollars for a residential battery system. They changed it recently because a lot of people were installing unnecessarily large batteries that they- Yeah

[00:08:35] weren't utilizing- Yep ... taxpayer funded money, so they were pretty smart in changing that and reducing it down. So it really focuses on that battery the majority of homes need, 14 to 28 kilowatt hour sized battery, and you're receiving a rebate at, for anywhere from about 4,000 to $6,000, in that range.

[00:08:51] Awesome. So let's say the battery costs you 10,000, does that mean the government's giving you 6,000?

[00:08:57] Yeah. So they designed it so that it'd be about 30 to 40% reduction on the cost of a battery for most homes. Oh, wow. So if you've got a battery that might be a $15,000 battery, that might come down to, say, 11,000.

[00:09:08] Awesome. And I know my sister's very transparent. She actually, um, 'cause that, that is no small means, but she got her, an inheritance, one of our grandparents sadly passed away, and she actually used her inheritance to purchase a battery, 'cause otherwise it would've taken them quite a long time. Are there any other kind of pay it off schemes that people can use that you know about?

[00:09:31] Yeah, absolutely. We have, uh, what we call a green loan. So green loans have been set up for people purchasing renewable energy products. Yep. So solar panels and batteries.

[00:09:39] Yeah.

[00:09:40] So there's green loans up to 10 years, even 15 years.

[00:09:42] Wow.

[00:09:43] So it s- works similar to a personal loan, but it's designed around installing a solar product that saves you money as well.

[00:09:49] So the ideal design is if you could install a solar system and battery at no upfront cost, and the savings that that system generates, which is avoided power bills-

[00:09:59] Yeah ...

[00:09:59] covers the repayments, then you're better off day one No upfront cost, saving money on your power bills that you're using to pay off the system.

[00:10:06] So it's really, really good these days.

[00:10:08] How do people sign up for that?

[00:10:10] That's easy. You can come through Resync if you'd like. Uh, we are the highest rated, most awarded solar company in the country now.

[00:10:15] Yeah. So

[00:10:16] we're happy to help. We do a custom design consultation for everyone. There's plenty of other solar companies.

[00:10:20] There's some great sites like Solar Quotes as well that'll connect you with three different providers. But yeah, I think the most important step is to become educated, to speak to someone, to custom design a solution for your home, run through those options, then you've got the dollars and cents. And if the dollars do make sense, then it's worthwhile jumping on.

[00:10:38] I guess they'll be able to, on that consultation, like, look at the r- return on investment as well and when you could have this paid off by.

[00:10:46] Yeah, correct. So w- we do a full analysis there on what the expected return on investment based on the savings and the capital cost of the system.

[00:10:53] Yeah.

[00:10:53] And what we find nine times out of 10, it is a positive cash flow scenario if someone is financing it.

[00:10:58] Yeah. That's where a lot of people, the penny drops and it becomes the no-brainer is when they realize they're spending money on power bills anyway.

[00:11:05] Yeah. You

[00:11:05] can divert that money over the next five, seven, 10 years-

[00:11:09] Mm ... to

[00:11:09] pay for the cost of your system, and then once that's paid off, it's free power thereafter.

[00:11:13] And I think as well as we, we've just seen, like, a big, you know, oil crisis and we've seen petrol prices really go up. I ha- to say, like, the property I'm in at the moment, I'm very fortunate that it has solar and it has a battery and we have a Tesla. So that whole period of time, we didn't actually ... Again, I know it's a privileged position to be in, but I didn't even look at the petrol prices because I was like, "That just doesn't affect me."

[00:11:38] But having solar and having a battery, it does protect you from these kind of bigger global crisises that are going on.

[00:11:46] Yeah, certainly does. It's a really good hedge we call that in finance, of course. Now, especially now that, uh, petrol prices have gone up. We've seen a huge surge in interest in EVs of course-

[00:11:55] Yeah

[00:11:55] but also in battery and solar systems. We've got a lot of customers that we installed five, seven, 10 years ago-

[00:12:01] Yeah ...

[00:12:01] that are now coming back and saying, "You know what? My system served my needs previously."

[00:12:05] Yeah. "

[00:12:05] A lot of the power I'm using in my house has come from my solar and my batteries."

[00:12:08] Yeah. "

[00:12:09] But we just bought an EV and now we're pulling electricity from the grid."

[00:12:13] Yeah.

[00:12:13] So they're looking at that twofold, is can I expand my solar system so that the power I'm putting in is free? Secondly is they bought an EV, part of that decision is environmental, and they're plugging it into the grid and using coal-fired power.

[00:12:25] Yeah.

[00:12:26] So both so that it's, uh, environmental and also independent and free power off the roof.

[00:12:31] Larger solar system, you can offset not just your power bill but also your fuel bill.

[00:12:35] Yeah. Love that. Double whammy.

[00:12:37] A mother-in-law that we installed a solar system for

[00:12:40] Yeah ...

[00:12:41] and she's offset her gas bill as well. So-

[00:12:43] Yes ...

[00:12:44] gas appliances to electric around the kitchen. Yeah. Now she's got, uh, just the solar and batteries.

[00:12:49] Love that. Before we jumped on air, we were talking about virtual power plants. Yeah. What are they and how do they work?

[00:12:58] So virtual power plant is, um, consider it like a community battery almost, where you get to aggregate your batteries as a pool. So you work with an energy retailer that has a virtual power plan or virtual power plant plan.

[00:13:10] And with the grid, when there's a really high spike in prices based on demand and shortage of supply, is that energy retailer can dispatch power from your battery as well as 10,000 other solar battery customers and discharge that into the grid and profit from that. Now, that grid price, we usually buy power for around 30, 35 cents from the grid.

[00:13:33] Yeah.

[00:13:34] At its highest, that can spike up to about $14 a kilowatt hour.

[00:13:37] Whoa.

[00:13:38] So if you've got a 20 kilowatt hour battery that's fully charged, and there's one of those moments that happen, then you can push 10 kilowatt hours from your battery into the grid, and it can be as high as $100, $140 in profit in that moment.

[00:13:49] Wow. So virtual power plant, when signed up, is because you've got, again, we'll use the word hedge, because you're generating your own power- Yes ... solar, storing that in a battery. So if you need more power than the solar's generating, you can pull it from your battery. Is you're not so much exposed to those high prices.

[00:14:06] Hmm. So

[00:14:06] if you go on a wholesale plan where you can buy power even cheaper from the grid overnight when you do need it, if you don't have enough in your battery and solar. But you can also accelerate the return on investment of your system by participating in the wholesale prices when they're really high by sending excess power to the grid.

[00:14:23] Wow. So we often see that'll take a return on investment of a battery from, say, seven or eight years, battery and solar system, down to as low as three, four, five years.

[00:14:31] Wow. So you're almost making ... You're, well, you are, you're making money off your battery.

[00:14:37] Yeah, correct. You go from, uh, paying an electricity bill to not only reducing that down to zero, but, uh, getting credits back on your bill in a lot of cases.

[00:14:45] I mean, it sounds good. Sounds good.

[00:14:47] Yeah.

[00:14:47] Side hustle for my battery. Um- And

[00:14:50] also, like, Molly, is this, uh, is this tax-free income there on, uh, as a household electricity plan.

[00:14:55] Boom.

[00:14:56] They say a dollar saved is better than a dollar earned because you're not paying tax on it.

[00:15:00] Indeed.

[00:15:01] You can, uh, save a couple of thousand dollars a year on your power bills through solar and batteries- Yeah

[00:15:05] and then make a little bit of money on a virtual power plan. It's a real win-win.

[00:15:09] That is huge. And is that all done via an app or, like, a website?

[00:15:14] Yeah, it's all done via an app, and there's smart algorithms there. People can choose what level they wanna actively participate in a virtual power plan.

[00:15:21] Yeah.

[00:15:22] Most people just choose to go completely passive, let the algorithms- Yeah ... decide when it buys and sells.

[00:15:27] Yeah.

[00:15:27] Um, other people though, is they take a real interest into it, especially retired engineers. They love the app and they wanna be into it or-

[00:15:34] And retired, and retired vets as well. My dad loves it.

[00:15:37] Yes. Yes. And then, uh, yeah, you can choose to participate in moments, you can choose to, uh, change the behavior of your battery and- Yeah ... so, yeah, it does become a little bit of a game for some people. I believe it's easier just to set it, forget it- Yeah ... let the algorithms take, do what they do.

[00:15:55] Yeah. I think that's what I'd be doing, and most people would be doing, unless obviously they're a boomer male.

[00:15:59] Awesome-

[00:15:59] It's also a return on investment on your time as well as opposed to-

[00:16:02] Exactly ...

[00:16:03] your app and, yeah

[00:16:05] So how long does the installation take?

[00:16:08] Typically, most systems are pretty straightforward and they take one day.

[00:16:12] Wow.

[00:16:12] Larger residential systems can be two, three, up to four days for a really large, complex system.

[00:16:17] Awesome. And just, like, final two questions. What's the biggest mistake you find when people are buying a battery?

[00:16:24] So we have not had a single customer ever come back to us and say, "I bought a battery that was too big." Is we have had a number of customers come back and say, "I wish I had have bought a bigger battery- Yep

[00:16:36] when I, first time around."

[00:16:38] Can you add onto it if you need? Like, let's say you had the 10, can you do another 10 later?

[00:16:44] Yes, absolutely. So most batteries are modular these days. So you can either add a whole nother battery unit or battery units. Um, so modular bricks we call them. So you might have a five kilowatt-hour modular unit, so you can, might have 15 kilowatt hours, and then you can come back and add another 5 or 10 later on.

[00:17:02] Yeah.

[00:17:03] Uh, the incentives are designed to be a one and done, the cheaper home battery rebate.

[00:17:07] Mm-hmm. Yeah.

[00:17:07] So you're best off right-sizing a battery initially through correct consultation and custom design of a solution. Yeah. And there's a lot of people that are just one size fits all or rushing decisions through, and it's not the right designed system for that customer's current and future needs

[00:17:22] And I don't know if, I mean, I'll ask it anyway.

[00:17:25] If you move house, can you take your battery with you?

[00:17:28] Technically you could, but generally you wouldn't. Okay. It is, it is approved and the rebate applied for that household.

[00:17:36] Okay.

[00:17:37] You do need an electrician to both install it and remove it. But also, a well-designed, high-quality battery and solar system will add value to a house.

[00:17:45] Yes. I was gonna say that would probably, you wouldn't wanna take it 'cause you're taking value away from the home.

[00:17:51] Yeah, correct. So you leave that one in place. It's commonplace that we've got repeat customers. Uh, our record is a customer who is onto their fourth property in the last 10 years.

[00:17:59] Wow.

[00:17:59] She, uh, moves in, renovates, uh- Yeah

[00:18:02] sells, buys another property, moves in, renovates, sells. She's avoiding the, uh, capital gains tax by doing principal place of residence, I believe.

[00:18:09] Ah, interesting.

[00:18:10] They value each time, promotes it with a brand-new solar system and battery stack. Great. And then onto the next project.

[00:18:17] Love that. And then final question just to wrap it all up, Leigh.

[00:18:20] If someone's sitting on the fence about getting a battery, what would you say to them?

[00:18:24] I would say the cost of everything is going up, the cost of living, the cost of mortgages, the cost of solar, batteries, plastics, fuel. All raw ingredients and inputs are going up, but so are electricity bills. The one thing that's not going up are the rebates to install batteries and solar.

[00:18:41] They're actually reducing down. So my recommendation is if you are looking to get solar and batteries, reach out, have a consultation. If the dollars make sense, fantastic. If you need a green loan or a finance plan to help out, they're available as well. But it's one of the only living expenses that we can take control of at the moment.

[00:18:59] And- Love

[00:18:59] that ...

[00:19:00] I think it's important. We need certainty, security, and also you've got that peace of mind that in a blackout you've still got power.

[00:19:07] Yeah. Incredible. Awesome. Well, this has been very eye-opening. I have to say my knowledge of batteries has gone up tenfold considering I knew nothing before we started this conversation.

[00:19:17] And Leigh, if people wanna get in touch with you and your team, where should they go?

[00:19:21] They can go to the website, it's resync.com.au. And if you go with a /lfc, Ladies Finance Club, then we can, uh, help you out and the team will look after you.

[00:19:31] Well, there you go, guys. There's a bit more information on batteries, Batteries 101.

[00:19:37] Thank you so much, Leigh, for coming onto the podcast and explaining it all to me so clearly.

[00:19:42] Thank you, Molly. You had fantastic questions and, uh, I think that'll help a lot of people.

[00:19:46] Awesome, love that.

 

 

 

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