A Good Week for Solar
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 06:38AM And now for the good news:
All States in Australia have now announced a Feed In Tariff
The recent announcement that NSW would be introducing a Feed in Tariff in early 2009, now means that all states have confirmed that houses boasting solar power will be getting paid a higher rate for energy produced by their Solar Panels. So for example, ACT residents will get paid up to $0.60 per KwH for any energy produced by their solar panels. This is an increase of 3.88 times the standard rate paid for electricity.
The feed in tariff system was invented and pioneered in Germany and is the reason the German solar industry is the largest in the world.
Although the rates paid will differ in every state, most states still have a relatively small multiple at this point. Now that NSW has finally announced it will join the other states (which it clearly opposed in the past), it paves the way for a national feed in tariff that will hopefully be in line with the multiples paid in European countries, and hopefully not be restricted to residential installation only. This will then open the floodgates for businesses to invest in solar as positively geared investments (where the payback of the energy savings is more than the finance costs on the system), and this will have a dramatic increase on our uptake of Solar Power.
Danin
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Reader Comments (1)
Hi Folks,
I have a question regarding the Whisper turbines;
I have ordered a Whisper 200 marine for my location on the south west coast of Jamaica, west indies, and I would like to ask " Can this turbine, mounted at 40 feet, withstand hurricane force winds? We regularly get up to Category 5 storms and my worry is that the turbine may take off for Cuba.Any suggestions?
My intention is to mount the 2 1/2" schedule 40 galvanised pipe tower, welded to a 1/4" steel plate which in turn will be bolted to a 2'x2'x2' buried concrete block. Then I will guy the tower at 16' and again at 33' thus giving the rotor space to turn.I am an engineer but more hydraulic/motor, rather than structural so any help would be appreciated