The pricing recommended in the final IPART report on solar tariffs in NSW is less important than its failure to imagine the future. The NSW energy industry remains rooted in the past. Chalk up another big win for the incumbents.
What do energy companies know that the Queensland government doesn’t? What’s rooftop solar really doing to power bills? And what role do FiTs really play?
The Arab nation has introduced tariffs for renewable energy generation, after shelving plans to build up to five new nuclear reactors in May.
The suggestion tariff cuts somehow increase solar PV sales is either ignorant or deceptive. Victoria’s latest effort puts the industry at a distinct disadvantage.
Victoria’s Coalition government has cut the state’s solar FiT from 25c/kWh to 8c/kWh, and extended it to all low-emissions technologies of less than 100kW.
Soft US tariff translates as win for Chinese solar market; EnerNOC builds on NZ demand response success; Dyesol view improves with bigger solar window.
Germany could increase its solar capacity 5-fold, without subsidies. It would redefine the cost of abatement of green incentives.
