Home battery quiet achiever unveils new offering, prepares to pounce on plug-in solar and storage

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After being ambushed by the rebate, this home battery maker is quietly making a name for itself in the Australian market – just in time for the plug-in revolution.

Anker Solix didn’t have the smoothest entry into Australia’s home battery market.

The China-based company founded by ex-Google software engineer Steven Yang made its official Australian debut in April 2025, with a premium-end offering that had not anticipated the July introduction of a game-changing national rebate.

For starters, the company’s X1 range of home batteries turned out to be undersized, compared to the between 30-50 kilowatt-hour behemoths so many households were installing under the original settings of Cheaper Home Batteries, which encouraged a more-is-more approach to energy storage.

“To be honest, we didn’t know these rebates would come in,” Anker Solix’s country head for Australia and NZ, Sachin Sardana, told Renew Economy in August.

“We have a 5 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery module, and each stack can only go up to 25 kWh. And you know, with the rebate, how it was designed at that time, it was like a 50 kilowatt-hour that everyone was asking for.”

But Anker Solix still managed to chalk up 6,500-plus installations over the first year of the rebate, even despite its batteries being on the smaller and more premium side.

And by August, the company’s X1 range of batteries was ranked by Solar Quotes at number 2 on the top 10 list of home battery brands according to Australian consumer reviews.

At this year’s All Energy Australia conference at the end of October, Anker launched its second generation of home batteries, centred around the Anker Solix XE, an all-in-one offering that combines an inverter and battery in a compact 1.3 metres tall 28kWh unit, but which can scale up by 7kWh additions to 42kWh.

The system’s dual-cycle design is built around the Solar Sharer Offer’s three-hour free midday power window: it charges during the day, discharges through the evening peak, and tops up again on off-peak rates overnight.

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