{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"battery-install-compliance-2026","title":"Three in Five: What the Battery Inspection Rate Counts","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/battery-install-compliance-2026","datePublished":"2026-08-13","lastReviewed":"2026-09-15"},"figure":{"id":"state-substandard-rate","title":"Share of inspected battery systems rated substandard, by state, to 30 June 2026","unit":"per cent of inspections","valueLabel":"Substandard rate","provenance":{"dataSource":"Clean Energy Regulator, battery inspection results report, system inspection findings per state (CSV), read 15 September 2026","dataType":"Observed, cumulative to 30 June 2026","scope":"The six jurisdictions with more than 150 inspections; the Northern Territory (34) and Tasmania (44) are in the adjacent table only","statistic":"Substandard count divided by inspections, calculated from the published counts"},"caption":"One national scheme, a spread of thirty-five points. Rates calculated from the CER's published per-state counts (WA: 240 substandard of 392 inspected). The NT (34 inspections) and Tasmania (44) are omitted as too small to plot, though the NT now rates above Queensland.","series":[{"label":"Queensland","value":77.2},{"label":"Western Australia","value":61.2},{"label":"South Australia","value":59.1},{"label":"New South Wales","value":58.9},{"label":"Victoria","value":58},{"label":"ACT","value":41.6}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/battery-install-compliance-2026/figures/state-substandard-rate/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}