Comments on: Australia Out-Installed Germany in Under-10kW Solar in 2011 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/australia-out-installed-germany-in-under-10kw-solar-in-2011/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 04:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/australia-out-installed-germany-in-under-10kw-solar-in-2011/#comment-123032 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:20:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38645#comment-123032 the coming carbon pricing system to change that big-govt lethargy much, you think?

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/australia-out-installed-germany-in-under-10kw-solar-in-2011/#comment-123033 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:20:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38645#comment-123033 this thread has me lost :D

]]> By: Ronald Brak http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/australia-out-installed-germany-in-under-10kw-solar-in-2011/#comment-122651 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:19:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38645#comment-122651 Too right mate! An if ya don’t like it, you and me can play a little game of catch with a large burrowing marsupial. That’s right, I’m challenging you to hand to hand wombat.

]]> By: John Bailo http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/australia-out-installed-germany-in-under-10kw-solar-in-2011/#comment-122650 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:39:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38645#comment-122650 No…no…zis cannot be true…

What are you telling me…that Chermany has been exzeeded by a nation of…of….KAN-GER-ROOS!!!

]]> By: Mr T http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/australia-out-installed-germany-in-under-10kw-solar-in-2011/#comment-122525 Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38645#comment-122525 The reason for this was the soon to end solar rebates. In short, everyone who had been thinking of installing solar was spurred on to doing so. The number of applications for rebated systems went through the roof as the deadline approached. Now that the rebates are pretty much gone and the feed-in tarrif multiplier has been steadily reduced, it will be interesting to see the figures for 2012 and 2013, given also that ther has been a massive drop in PV prices.

Sadly, as the article explains, there was almost no large scale solar installed here last year. In fact, the largest solar installation in the country is yet to be completed and will be a measley 10MW. This is due to the lack of government support for large scale renewables here, as well as the artificially low cost of coal fired electricity due to the 10 of billions of dollars of tax breaks and incentives the fossil fuel industry gets here every year.

We still have a long way to go…

]]> By: Ross http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/30/australia-out-installed-germany-in-under-10kw-solar-in-2011/#comment-122501 Wed, 30 May 2012 18:06:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38645#comment-122501 Howzat? – To use a cricketing metaphor for our solar doubting antipodean cousins.

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