MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:00 pm on April 7, 2021 | 20 comments Readers will know that the MB view of the uptake of battery power to supplant traditional baseload output reliant on fossil fuels is inevitable. Now, Labor has seen the light with an actual policy from Albo today: Labor will spend $200m on community batteries. Each is about the size of a four-wheel drive. They will be linked to household rooftop solar and free them entirely from the grid with both inputs and outputs for the NEM. Each battery would cost around $500k (thought that will come down a lot more yet).