|
I am all for distributed power generation and solar is definitely a real contender as it is fairly straight forward, highly reliable and bugger all maintenance.
However, the tariffs initially implemented ($0.6/kWhr gross! in NSW) is ridiculous and doomed to fail or hit its budget limit quickly. Even $0.4/kWhr is imo too high. It should represent a geniune market price and the subsidies need to target the initial capital cost. Then the generated price of carbon based power (eg coal fired) should then be appropriately "taxed" or charged or whatever to improve the cost position of solar/wind/other generation. This is what the government should be directing its carbon tax torwards. This is what I can't understand about our current "leaders" as they have not adequately defined what the carbon tax is actually going to do other then redistribute a tax collected and deploy it in other non incentive based ways.
An opportunity Australia is rapidly losing.
Darrin...
|