ATA, PV and electricity.

As I sit at home reading various articles on Climate Change, environment and other matters of interest, I am aware of my Solar Panels gently feeding in electricity to the grid. The sun is shining and only I am at home, with most appliances turned off.
However, an email from the Alternative Technology Association (ATA) has got me wondering how much more tinkering our various authorities will do to water down recent "green" lifestyle initiatives.
ATA believes that no further changes should be made to the Small-scale Renewable Energy market given the recent reduction in the solar multiplier. The ATA thinks the current market design is appropriate, a clear message they are sending to the Climate Change Authority (CCA) as it reviews the Renewable Energy Target. The CCA have been considering further cuts and tweaks to the small market as part of its review. ATA talks about PV generation as follows:

“At the end of the day, we are talking about a technology, given its time of generation, that actually reduces wholesale electricity prices for all other consumers. This is something that as a nation we should be encouraging as much as possible,” says the ATA’s Energy Policy Manager Damien Moyse.

The recent Federal Government’s decision adds $700 to $1000 to the cost of an average solar system, thereby making it harder for those households and small business to use solar PV to manage their ever-increasing electricity bills.

The Climate Change Authority has been considering extremely punitive and almost unworkable measures to further reduce the size of the small renewables market – despite the fact that this market increases costs for electricity consumers by less than 1% of average bills, after all costs and benefits are taken into account.”

Hopefully, the authority will listen but recent experience warns me they won't. Please let social justice and green initiatives continue. We, the people want to be able to manage our bills as effectively as possible.

PS: definition of Negawatts : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negawatt_power
I rather like the idea of this

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 at 12:53 pm