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

(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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

Note: The Protocol is in Australian Treaty Series 2008 No. 2 ([2008] ATS 2) and could in 2025 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

Program: see subsection 5(1).

Paris Agreement means the Paris Agreement, done at Paris on 12 December 2015, as in force for Australia from time to time.

Note: The Agreement is in Australian Treaty Series 2016 No. 24 ([2016] ATS 24) and could in 2025 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

Regulator has the meaning in section 5 of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000.

small-scale technology certificate has the meaning in section 5 of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change means the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, done at New York on 9 May 1992, as in force for Australia from time to time.

Note: The Convention is in Australian Treaty Series 1994 No. 2 ([1994] ATS 2) and could in 2025 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

5 Prescribed program

(1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Cheaper Home Batteries Program (the program) is prescribed.

(2) The program provides for a discount on the cost of installing small-scale batteries which will be implemented through the creation of small-scale technology certificates for eligible battery-connected (solar PV) small generation units. The program will be funded by the Commonwealth purchasing small-scale technology certificates equivalent in volume to the number of certificates created for battery connected (solar PV) small generation units installed on or after 1 July 2025.

(3) The objectives of the program are to reduce the upfront cost of installing a battery connected (solar PV) small generation unit and incentivise increased deployment of small-scale batteries to harness power generated by small-scale solar PV.

6 Specified legislative power

For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to external affairs (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxix) of the Constitution) is specified, as it relates to measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4;
the Kyoto Protocol, particularly Article 10;
the Paris Agreement, particularly Article 4.