Comments on: Australia’s Largest Solar PV Project Continues Apace

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:20:00 +0000

Agreed & agreed.

But have to start somewhere. And need solar anywhere we can get it, but would be good if some govts focused on stimulating decentralized solar more.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:56:00 +0000

10MW ain’t very big for a grid scale plant, and I’d prefer to see it going on roofs, but any solar is good solar!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:35:00 +0000

I’m definitely into it.

By: RobS

RobS — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:29:00 +0000

I agree that if you gave this 50 million as 50,000 $1000 dollar rebates in addition to the RECs available than 50,000 people would chip in a few thousand dollars of their own to put a system on their roof and you would turn 50 million into ~200 million worth or solar capacity. By putting it on roofs you use no public land, generate power at the point of use reducing the requirement for new distribution capacity and there is good evidence that people who install home solar become more aware of energy usage patterns and significantly decrease their consumption further magnifying the benefits.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:28:00 +0000

or anywhere in the world

By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:25:00 +0000

I don’t understand why they didn’t use the money to build an even greater amount of capacity point of use. It takes very little encouragement to get a home owner or business to install solar power on their roofs these days, so the $50 million that the solar farm cost would have gone a very long way. But then, we don’t always do things the most efficient way here in Australia.