One in Five Western Australia Homes Install Solar Panels
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:38 pmFigures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, shows 180,000 households in the state of Western Australia now have solar panels — equal to one in five homes and a jump of 20% in the past year. Western Australia has four postcodes among the top 20 in the nation based on power generated from the sun. In suburbs in the top 20 postcodes, one in every three homes has , up from one in about 100 a decade ago. Yealering retiree Fran Allan cut her power bill from almost $300 to about $60 with eight solar panels and a 2kW system, and many other retirees in Yealering have done the same. A solar power revolution is well under way in the state, but experts say a new battery storage innovation will create a second boom in solar panel installation.