| SOLAR DAILY | SPACE DAILY | SPACE WAR | TERRA DAILY | MARS DAILY | SPACE MART | SPACE TRAVEL | ENERGY DAILY |
 |
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) May 08, 2008 "Our plan is fully costed and will add less than $10 per year to Victorians' electricity bills, not the $100 claimed by the government," says Brad Shone, ATA's Energy Policy Manager. Mr Shone says ATA's proposal is based on international experience. "Germany has installed 400 times the total solar capacity of Australia, over the last seven years, at an additional cost of less than 1% on household electricity bills". Mr Shone says ATA's proposed gross-metering feed-in tariff will also provide the financial incentive to deliver over 100,000 solar roofs across Victoria. "Not only is ATA's scheme affordable for consumers, it will also guarantee solar panel owners can recover the cost of their solar installation within ten years". Mr Shone says the government's claim that their net feed-in scheme will also result in a ten year payback is difficult to believe. "ATA's figures show that payback times will be over 25 years for a typical solar system, under the government's proposal". "It's not too late for the government to introduce a world class, effective gross-metering feed-in tariff that will drive large scale up-take of solar and help Victorian families play their part in tackling climate change," Mr Shone says. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
Related Links Alternative Technology Association All About Solar Energy at SolarDaily.com
MIT Building Low-Cost Solar Concentrator
Cambridge MA (SPX) May 7, 2008 A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students is building a prototype power concentrator with a goal of revolutionizing the solar energy field. |
|
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2007 - SpaceDaily.AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement |
del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
YahooMyWeb
Google
Facebook