{
  "slug": "export-constraint-economy-australia-2026",
  "title": "The Export Constraint Economy: Australian Solar After the Easy Kilowatt-Hour",
  "url": "https://solaranalytica.com/export-constraint-economy-australia-2026",
  "summary": "A WA-led account of why distributed-solar value now depends on destination and timing: self-consumption, export, storage and curtailment, joined to current tariffs and a fixed distributed-asset baseline.",
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to Solar Analytica (solaranalytica.com). Underlying figures are named to their public sources below.",
  "csv": "https://solaranalytica.com/reports/export-constraint-economy-australia-2026/data.csv",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-03",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-08-01",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Synergy energy plans and published charges",
      "url": "https://www.synergy.net.au/Your-home/Energy-plans"
    },
    {
      "title": "WA household electricity pricing",
      "url": "https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/energy-policy-wa/household-electricity-pricing"
    },
    {
      "title": "CER small-scale installation postcode data",
      "url": "https://cer.gov.au/markets/reports-and-data/small-scale-installation-postcode-data"
    },
    {
      "title": "ABS 2021 Census",
      "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/census"
    }
  ],
  "figures": [
    {
      "id": "wa-import-export-value-ladder",
      "title": "WA residential import and export tariff ladder",
      "unit": "c/kWh",
      "provenance": {
        "dataSource": "Synergy and WA Government",
        "dataType": "Published regulated tariff",
        "scope": "Synergy residential customers",
        "statistic": "A1 import rate and DEBS export rates",
        "interval": "Effective 1 July 2026"
      },
      "caption": "WA residential import and DEBS export value from 1 July 2026. Export limits and the daily 50 kWh DEBS cap remain separate constraints.",
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "A1 import value",
          "value": 33.2621
        },
        {
          "label": "DEBS peak export",
          "value": 10
        },
        {
          "label": "DEBS off-peak export",
          "value": 2
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}