All Energy Australia opens in Melbourne next week — here are three numbers worth taking to the show floor.

500,000 — home batteries installed so far under the Cheaper Home Batteries Program. Past this scale, installer networks, grid processes and after-sales systems tend to standardise. It gets easier for newcomers, not harder.

153 — batteries installed for every 100 new solar systems in H1 2026. A ratio above 100% means one thing: existing solar owners are retrofitting. So the channel conversation is no longer "should we do storage" — it's "how do we make retrofits faster and simpler."

A$7.2B / 2 million homes by 2030 — funding has grown from A$2.3B, and eligibility spans 5–100 kWh. Against the 2 million target, roughly 1.5 million installs remain. That's the floor for the next four years of demand.

Four questions worth asking at the booth:
• How do you handle retrofits with existing inverters — what's your protocol compatibility coverage?
• What are real grid-approval timelines across NSW, Victoria and Queensland?
• What delivery commitments can you make during a subsidy window?
• How fast do replacement units reach installers after a fault report?

Sources: Australian PM's Office; CEC (via PV Tech, 12 Oct 2026); Clean Energy Regulator.

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