According to the company’s press release yesterday, Australia is only the third market in the world where Tesla Energy has committed to commencing operations, selling its Powerwall home battery.

The company is already manufacturing units and will keep ramping up volume production over the next few weeks, Georgeson said.

The Powerwall changes this model by storing the surplus. The 10-kWh weekly cycle version, priced at United States dollars 3,500, will start being delivered in early 2016.

The 7kWh daily cycling Powerwall will soon become available to local residential solar users, allowing customers to soak up energy from the sun during the day and store it in lithium-ion battery packs.

And now the electric auto manufacturer has announced that it will be making the rechargeable, wall-mounted home battery system available from local suppliers in Australia by the end of the year.

Australia seems to be a step ahead in a number of fronts lately, with a new law set to deny government benefits to anti-vaccine parents and an announcement that the country is the first nation to receive Tesla’s hyped Powerwall battery storage system, a revolutionary way to harness and store solar energy to power homes.

The take-up of solar energy in Australia explains in part the reported 6.7 per cent decline in electricity demand from traditional power utilities since 2010, despite the national economy growing by nine per cent during the same period. The 7kWh battery now goes for $3000 in the United States market while the $10kWh retails for 3,500.

The giant battery maker stated that the list of Powerwall suppliers in Australia will certainly grow with time. The energy can be used in nighttime hours instead of using electricity from the grid, and it can be fed back into the grid.

Commercial operators can also opt for the industrial-grade Powerpack, which uses 100kWh battery blocks in groups to scale from 500kWh to 10MWh of capacity.

At the moment, various other giant power suppliers in the country have been offering their exclusive power storage solution, but can not compete with Tesla’s Powerwall.