Presented by Energy Matters team member Virginia, we take a look at some of the stories from Australia and around the world recently added to our renewable energy news section.
In this episode, Virginia covers a further reduction to the Solar Credits scheme, the potential for legal action arising from the NSW Solar Bonus scheme being put on hold, Australia’s top solar postcodes and the IPCC’s report on the potential for renewable energy.
In this episode:
– Climate Change Minister Greg Combet recent announced the Solar Credits scheme will be further reduced from July 1 2011. Based on a multiplier system, in December last year, the government announced a reduction from 5 to 4 to occur at the end of this financial year. This multiplier will now be further reduced to 3. Read more.
– Greens NSW MP John Kaye has suggested some households may have cause for a class action suit over the suspension of the state’s feed in tariff scheme. A notice in the Government Gazette was not published and Dr Kaye claims that because of this, households still have a legislated right to connect systems to the mains grid and receive the 20 cent tariff. Read more.
– According to Clean Energy Council Chief Executive Matthew Warren, it’s a common misconception that home solar is most popular in our capital cities and exclusive suburbs. Data from the CEC shows renewable energy is even more popular in regional Australia than it is in the city. Read more.
– A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says close to 80 percent of the world’s energy could be sourced from renewable by the middle of this century. Read more.
