A community-driven effort to install just under 100kW of solar and 25kWh of battery storage at a former coal mine site in Victoria’s south-east has won state government funding, lending momentum to broader plans to install solar on community facilities across the region, and at other Parks Victoria sites.
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Victoria’s pricing regulator has come down on the side of the state’s solar households in its final report on the Energy Value of Distributed Generation, recommending changes to tariff structures to reflect the true value of rooftop solar and other small renewable electricity … [continued]
Via the good folks at Renew Economy: Victoria’s Coalition government has announced it is cutting the state’s solar feed-in tariff from 25 cents per kilowatt-hour to just 8c/kWh – approximately one third the current retail rate for electricity in Victoria. The Baillieu government’s energy minister, Michael O’Brien, announced the … [continued]
