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Session

Renewable Energy 3
Location: B133
Session Chair: Kiso Takahiko, University of Aberdeen

Presentation 2

Partisan Politics, Policy Incentives, and Household Returns to Rooftop Solar: Evidence from Australia

Manh Tien Bui

Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Australia

Discussant: Megan Lang (World Bank)

Rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption has expanded rapidly in Australia, resulting in one of the highest household adoption rates in the world. Yet the partisan politics and policy drivers of this growth, and its distributional welfare consequences, remain empirically underexplored. Using a balanced panel dataset of 137 Australian Local Government Areas (LGAs) over 2006-2023, this study examines how partisan governance and major policy incentives, specifically the Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) and Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs), affect residential solar uptake, and how adoption in turn affects household energy expenditure. Employing a Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) estimator, the paper finds that both instruments significantly stimulate adoption, with FiTs exhibiting a substantially stronger effect than upfront subsidies. Partisan alignment between federal and state Labor governments amplifies uptake above and beyond the individual-level effects of either government alone. While solar adoption reduces average household energy expenditure by up to 44% by 2023 relative to 2011 levels, income-stratified analysis reveals that higher-income LGAs capture significantly larger savings, raising important equity implications for the design of universal renewable energy incentive schemes.