Australian Solar Power Incentives For Business Go Begging

 

Melbourne, Victoria, October 22, 2009. Many Australian business owners are missing out on numerous incentives available for making the switch to solar power.
    
According to Max Sylvester, co-founder of national solar power solutions provider, Energy Matters, some of the rebates and incentives programs available aren't well advertised.
    
"There's a pot of money and tax breaks available to owners of businesses large and small to install solar power - if people know where to look. What we've done is to bring together summary information on the Energy Matters web site. After reviewing the basic information, instead of business owners then having to spend their valuable time chasing details all over the web, they can just email our team or call us on 1300 727 151 and we'll provide them with further information on programs they may be eligible for."
     
Some of the incentives include:
     
- Rebates of up to $7200 under the Solar Credits program
- Feed in tariffs where owners of systems are paid a premium rate for electricity produced
- Government grants of up to half a million dollars towards the purchase of solar power equipment
- Renewable energy certificates
- Tax deductions of up to 50%
     
Mr. Sylvester advises business owners act sooner rather than later. "Solar power is a great way for businesses to demonstrate a solid environmental commitment to their customers, but over the last 4 months we've seen three very important incentive programs axed prematurely and with little to no notice - so the end dates of some of these schemes shouldn't be seen as being written in stone."
     
Further information:
    
Solar power incentives for Australian business.
   
About Energy Matters
   
Energy Matters is one of Australia's largest companies solely dedicated to renewable energy solutions for residential and commercial applications. Energy Matters is also active on an industry level and in the community in lobbying the Government on challenges facing the local renewables sector and providing education on topics relating to solar and wind power, sustainability and other environmental issues.
  
CONTACT: 
Max Sylvester
Energy Matters
PH: 1300 727 151 
max.sylvester@energymatters.com.au
http://www.energymatters.com.au

Electric Car Battery Recycling To Benefit Solar Power

 

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation recently announced an initiative based on the 4R's -  to reuse, resell, refabricate and recycle lithium-ion batteries from electric cars for use as energy-storage solutions elsewhere.
 
While there is no existing supply of such batteries, by 2020 in Japan, the demand for electric car battery packs is expected to reach the equivalent of at least 50,000 vehicles per year.
 
Even after the end of normal vehicle life, the high-performance lithium-ion batteries used by Nissan will still have 70 to 80 percent of residual capacity and could be used as energy storage systems for off grid solar power applications. Lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles store massive amounts of energy and are far lighter and smaller than their traditional deep cycle battery counterparts.
 
The scheme will also help reduce the cost of electric car ownership as electric car battery packs are currently very expensive. According to  Hideaki Watanabe, head of Nissan's Zero Emission Business Unit,  "Nissan is exploring several options including battery lease or credit model based on a monthly payment scheme. With this proposition, the total running cost, which equals the monthly battery payment plus the cost to charge the battery, is comparable to the cost to refuel a similar gasoline-powered car."
 
Additionally, the program will help Nissan reduce the environmental impact of its electric car production.
 
The two companies will firstly undertake a joint feasibility study, with view to the program being operational by late 2010; initially in Japan and the United States.  
 
While these recycled batteries will only be able to address a small portion of the off grid solar market, recent major investments in electric car battery technology may see lithium-ion batteries developed specifically for the renewable energy market soon.
 

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