Dear Kevin / Penny
Following the very disappointing outcome of the Conference in Copenhagen I feel disillusioned and let down by our political leaders. It seems that no binding agreement has been reached. The fluffy accord that emerged feels woefully inadequate to address the immense challenge of climate change.
Following Copenhagen …
James Howard Kunstler, prominently featured in the peak oil documentary "The End of Suburbia", has written a frank and chilling assessment of where the world is at for "The Daily Reckoning".
Unfortunately it is not all rosy, but as usual it's all in how we look at things. Even though …
According to news.com.au
reporting about the Australian federal budget for 2009, Australia will
be spending up to \$1.5 billion over the next nine years to build up to
4 massive solar power plants. Plans for these solar power plants are on
a scale the world has never …
The
more I think about the state of solar electricity generation and
government support the more I understand that gross metered feed in
tariffs are a really powerful means to increase the uptake of solar
panels amongst the public.
The current scheme of RECS is severely flawed as it doesn't …
As most of you are probably aware our current economy is driven by constant growth and that the success of any commercial venture is always measured by continued growth of sales, earnings, and market share. Since I have realised this myself quite a few years back I have always wondered …
The Channel 7 Sunrise team have started another petition to stop the means testing of the solar rebate in Australia. The Sunrise petition already has over 30,000 signatures so it looks like this petition will make an impression.
If you would like the means test for the solar rebate …
We just got the most current ReNew magazine issued by the Alternative Technology Association which contained a number of interesting articles. One that I found most interesting was about "Solar Guerrillas".
Solar Guerrillas are people that install small grid connected solar systems without approval by the utilities or respective government …
The new budget introduced a damper for the solar industry by now applying a means test to the eligibility of up to \$8,000 government rebates for the installation of a residential solar power installation. The means test to be introduced shortly means that any household having a combined annual …
A recent news item on the Alternative Technology Association website (www.ata.org.au) highlights some improvements that should be made to the feed-in tariff in power across Australia. A feed-in tariff is the mandated price a home owner is paid for any electricity fed back into the electricity grid …