00:02There's been a solar battery boom driven by taxpayer subsidies under Labor's Cheaper
00:08Home Batteries program.
00:10507,651 home batteries installed since the 1st of July last year.
00:17Untested tip-offs obtained by the ABC under Freedom of Information raise questions about
00:23whether the multi-billion dollar scheme is being rorted.
00:26A solar installer has been allegedly staging jobs and adding extra batteries to make fraudulent
00:33rebate claims, while another company was accused of unpacking battery boxes and stacking them
00:39for compliance photos without installing them.
00:42I was very shocked by those allegations.
00:44There are also multiple claims dodgy operators were using unlicensed tradies to install batteries.
00:51That's really worrying because I rarely worry about the safety and performance of those
00:55systems.
00:56While half a million batteries have been installed, the Clean Energy Regulator has inspected
01:01only 3,600 of them.
01:04If businesses who are doing the wrong thing know that they're not going to be caught out,
01:09then they're more likely to continue doing the wrong thing.
01:12The opposition wants a Senate inquiry.
01:16Given the seriousness of the revelations, we need an independent inquiry to occur now.
01:23Claims of systemic fraud are not true, are a lie.
01:27The Clean Energy Regulator insisted that most companies are doing the right thing and that
01:33it will punish those that aren't That it will punish those that aren't Y.
01:35You
