Residential Electrification Inquiry

BZE has deep expertise and history in the benefits of household electrification, demonstrated through our research: 

• The Buildings Plan
• Cooling our Home
• Million Jobs Plan
• Deploy.

Australia’s residential building sector accounts for around 24% of electricity consumption and is responsible for around 11% of national greenhouse gas emissions. Full household electrification can enable Australians to enjoy good, comfortable, energy efficient, electrified homes as they face the challenges of a warming climate, while reducing their ongoing energy costs. Household electrification can also expand job opportunities in existing industries and make a significant contribution to our emission reduction targets.

Key recommendations include:

• Set a target to electrify 5 million Australian homes by 2035
• Streamline home thermal retrofits, energy efficiency and electrification by the creation of a National Retrofit Scheme (NRS) as a critical coordination mechanism in a fragmented market of home energy services. 
• Incentivise aggregators to offer Managed Energy Services Agreements
• Offer attractive tax incentives and rebates for households to invest in batteries and electricity retrofits.
• Align NDC targets to 1.5°C science based targets 
• Deploy cleantech at scale to cut emissions by 81% by 2030.