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More than 60% of home battery installations inspected in Australia are ‘substandard’ (theconversation.com)

submitted 2 days ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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More than 60% of battery system installation work inspected under a federal government green energy program is substandard and 1.2% unsafe, according to a recent report by the Clean Energy Regulator.

The Cheaper Home Batteries Program has proved hugely popular. More than a quarter of a million small-scale battery systems have now been installed under it. This equates to 7.7 gigawatt hours of installed storage capacity.

Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, says this “means less pressure at peak times, more reliability, and a cleaner, more affordable energy system”.

But the installation compliance and safety problems highlighted by the regulator’s report risk not only battery storage growth and the credibility of the scheme, but also public safety.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

You throw an arc fault on AC and all sorts of safety protections and circuit breakers kick in to kill it before anything happens. You do it on a DC battery and you get fire.