Are community batteries worth it? Senate Estimates 22.05.23

The Energy department doesn’t even understand its own $224 million dollar program.

After trying to justify expensive taxpayer funded batteries by claiming they were going to be aimed at parts of the electricity system that couldn’t be connected to the grid, it turns out they are being installed in inner city suburbs.

Why is Albanese wasting this sort of money on wealthy suburbs when there are perfectly good transmission lines in place?