Four reasons rooftop solar will grow to dominate Australia’s electricity market
Four reasons rooftop solar will grow to dominate Australia’s electricity market
Rooftop solar coupled with batteries will be critical to help governments reach their emission reduction goals.
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Is it weird of me to expect a country like Australia to have a lot of solar power already? Especially since it's so prevalent in the Netherlands where I grew up.
Netherlands is at 4.2% solar to 14% in Australia.
15% of all Netherlands power is renewable/sustainable compared to 32% in Australia.
I'm struggling to find a good source, but Australia also has the highest per capita rooftop solar (residential PV) rate in the world. Australia also leads per capita solar consumption overall, although Netherlands is second so they are doing well there too: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-solar?tab=chart&country=ESP~IND~PRT~GBR~NZL~CHN~AUS~USA~JPN~NLD
It's also fucking tiny and doesn't have a sodding great outback.
Well, they have nether lands. We have Tasmania, the nether region, cartographically speaking.
And coincidentally, was discovered by the Dutch.
It is already very common in Australia for homeowners. Not so much for renters or businesses, especially businesses that rent. There has been a drop in new solar recently as government subsidies and extra favourable feed in tariffs have been discontinued. But with dropping solar costs and rising energy costs, it still makes sense for most people.
@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."