1Industry Research and Development (Cheaper Home Batteries Program) Instrument 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Industry Research and Development (Cheaper Home Batteries Program) Instrument 2025

I, Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, as delegate of the Minister for Industry and Innovation, make the following instrument.

Dated  29 June 2025  

Chris Bowen

Minister for Climate Change and Energy

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Prescribed program

6  Specified legislative power

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Cheaper Home Batteries Program) Instrument 2025.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

• Commencement information
• Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
• Provisions Commencement Date/Details
• 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

battery connected (solar PV) small generation unit has the meaning in regulation 3C of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001. 

Department means the Department responsible for administering the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000.

Kyoto Protocol means the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, done at Kyoto on 11 December 1997, as in force for Australia from time to time.