Australia could unlock $370 annual savings by legalizing plug-in solar, UK model shows

Across much of the world, the democratization of solar energy has quietly advanced through a small but consequential technology: plug-in solar panels that require no landlord, no electrician, and no permanent installation. In Australia, however, millions of renters and apartment dwellers remain excluded from this shift not by the limits of the technology itself, but by regulations that have not kept pace with it. As the UK, Germany, Spain, and New Zealand have already moved to legalize these systems, advocacy groups are pressing Australian policymakers to confront a quiet inequity — one in whi