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Four reasons rooftop solar will grow to dominate Australia’s electricity market
(reneweconomy.com.au)
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@hitmyspot @HerbalGamer It becomes a lot less surprising when you consider that Australia has a massive fossil fuel industry, including both coal and natural gas.
Or that they're willing to spend up big on lobbying.
Or that putting forward energy, emissions reduction, and mining tax policies have directly left to the downfall of several prime ministers and opposition leaders.
Or that Rupert Murdoch (of Fox News fame) owns a daily newspaper in every state capital, plus the only national newspaper, plus a 24-hour news channel.
Now, despite all that, there's still a decent amount of solar photovoltaic installed, varying from state to state.
In South Australia, it's a key part of the energy mix.
"South Australia has a well-developed solar photovoltaic (PV) industry. The state currently has over 2 gigawatts of solar PV generating capacity statewide, over one in three households have solar panels, and three large scale solar farms are in operation with a fourth under construction.
"Solar energy contributed to over 20% of electricity generated in the state in 2020–21."
https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/industry/modern-energy/large-scale-generation-and-storage/solar-energy-in-south-australia#:~:text=The%20state%20currently%20has%20over,the%20state%20in%202020%E2%80%9321.
@humanhorseshoes except for all the panels from Korea which is most of them in Australia and all of them on my roof. Tier 1 PV isn't much more exxy than low quality .cn junk. @ajsadauskas @hitmyspot @HerbalGamer