Queensland Household Energy Survey 2024

Awareness of battery storage amongst this year’s survey participants is consistent with last year (81%). Additionally, this year, we have seen a significant increase in survey participants with solar PV indicating that they also now have battery storage at home, increasing to 23% (up from 16% last year). The main motivators to purchase battery storage amongst those participants are to reduce electricity use from the grid (47%), to reduce electricity bills (42%) and for protection against blackouts/loss of supply from the network (38%).

On the other hand, for participants with solar PV who don’t yet have battery storage, their intention to purchase battery storage at some point in the future, has decreased to 45% (down from 53%). This differential is mainly due to the increase in participants with solar PV who already own battery storage (29%, up from 20%). Willingness to spend on battery storage has remained consistent, with 63% of participants who intend to purchase battery storage being willing to spend at least $10K on purchasing a battery storage system (60% last year). Only 26% of participants with solar PV don’t intend to purchase battery storage in future.

Awareness of community batteries continues to trend upwards 39% (37% in 2023, 34% in 2022). Despite this increase in awareness, interest in being involved in community batteries remains unchanged at 38% (39% last year). Those aged 18 to 34 and 35 to 54 show the most interest in community batteries (44% and 43% high interest respectively).