{
  "slug": "australian-solar-storage-evidence-register-2026",
  "title": "Australian Solar and Storage Evidence Register, 2026",
  "url": "https://solaranalytica.com/australian-solar-storage-evidence-register-2026",
  "summary": "A fixed reference edition connecting Australian product eligibility, distributed adoption, grid operation, realised storage-market capture, regulated tariffs and forecast accountability, with quality declarations and verification boundaries published beside the evidence.",
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to Solar Analytica (solaranalytica.com). Underlying figures are named to their public sources below.",
  "csv": "https://solaranalytica.com/reports/australian-solar-storage-evidence-register-2026/data.csv",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-27",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-07-27",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Clean Energy Regulator: Small-scale installation postcode data",
      "url": "https://cer.gov.au/markets/reports-and-data/small-scale-installation-postcode-data"
    },
    {
      "title": "Australian Bureau of Statistics: Regional Population",
      "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/regional-population"
    },
    {
      "title": "Australian Bureau of Statistics: 2021 Census community profiles",
      "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/community-profiles"
    },
    {
      "title": "Australian Energy Market Operator: NEM data dashboard and NEMWeb",
      "url": "https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem"
    },
    {
      "title": "Australian Energy Market Operator: WEM data service",
      "url": "https://data.wa.aemo.com.au/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AEMO: 2026 WEM Electricity Statement of Opportunities",
      "url": "https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/wholesale-electricity-market-wem/wem-forecasting-and-planning/wem-electricity-statement-of-opportunities-wem-esoo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Western Power: Network Opportunity Map",
      "url": "https://www.westernpower.com.au/resources-education/suppliers/tenders-and-registrations-of-interest/transmission-system-plan--network-opportunity-map/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Energy Policy WA: Residential electricity prices",
      "url": "https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/energy-policy-wa/household-electricity-pricing"
    }
  ],
  "figures": [
    {
      "id": "swis-allocated-der-records",
      "title": "Allocated distributed-energy records in the SWIS public-extent cohort",
      "unit": "thousand allocated records",
      "valueLabel": "Solar records",
      "valueBLabel": "Battery records",
      "caption": "Allocated Clean Energy Regulator records through May 2026 across 246 Western Australian SA2 areas. Postcode records are allocated fractionally with ABS residential Mesh Block shares. Counts are records, not premises, and recent certificate cohorts can mature for up to 12 months.",
      "provenance": {
        "dataSource": "Clean Energy Regulator postcode data and ABS geography crosswalk",
        "dataType": "allocated administrative records",
        "scope": "246 Western Australian SA2 areas",
        "statistic": "retained record count",
        "interval": "through May 2026"
      },
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "SWIS public-extent cohort",
          "value": 564.139,
          "valueB": 43.15
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "nem-battery-capture-versus-tbx",
      "title": "Median actual NEM battery capture against perfect-foresight TBx",
      "unit": "percent of duration-matched benchmark",
      "valueLabel": "Median actual capture",
      "valueBLabel": "Perfect-foresight TBx",
      "caption": "First-quarter 2026 AEMO dispatch and price data across the full-quarter NEM battery cohort. TBx is a perfect-foresight spread benchmark, not a forecast or an achievable revenue promise.",
      "provenance": {
        "dataSource": "AEMO NEMWeb dispatch and regional price data",
        "dataType": "observed dispatch compared with derived benchmark",
        "scope": "full-quarter NEM bidirectional battery cohort",
        "statistic": "median capture ratio",
        "interval": "Q1 2026"
      },
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "Full-quarter NEM batteries",
          "value": 46,
          "valueB": 100
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}