Peaks to Points Festival - Communities caring for their Catchments
The Peaks to Points Festival celebrates the diverse natural environment of greater Brisbane’s southern region, from the dramatic heights of Flinders Peak near Ipswich, to the...
Discover why Queenslanders are advocating that over 1.5 million hectares of the state should become Biosphere Reserves
In November 2007 the whole of the Noosa Shire (150,000ha) was listed by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve
The Burnett Mary...
From the sand hills to the suburbs... steps towards a sustainable Australia
Your invitation to hear from the Hon Peter Garrett AM, MP, Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts
The Queensland Media Club, representing the Queensland...
The Queensland Water Commission invites feedback on it's draft SEQ Water Strategy .
Queensland Conservation will be preparing our response in due course and will post a link to it here.
Meanwhile you'll find our first impressions here.
A half day forum by the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand South East Queensland Division (EIANZ-SEQ)
Environmental practice is fraught with ethical dilemmas in balancing the demands of clients, the expectations of agencies and...
Queenslanders To Get 44 Cents Per Kwh For Domestic Solar Energy |
| Tuesday, 11 March 2008 | |
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Queensland Conservation (QCC) is delighted that from July 1st the Bligh Government has set a fair price for domestically generated solar power. "Energy retailers already pay generators a premium price for electricity during peak demand - which coincides exactly with the peak output of domestic solar panels" said QCC Coordinator, Toby Hutcheon. "Every kilowatt hour (KWH) of power produced by a domestic solar panel is one kilowatt hour less that comes from dirty coal. So it's only fair that people who are doing the right thing by installing solar panels get a similar price for their clean power as polluting conventional power stations." he continued. Queenslanders with grid-connected solar panels currently have the amount they produce subtracted from the amount they use on their quarterly bill, this is equivalent to a tariff of 15.6 cents per KWH. From July 1st they will receive 44 cents per KWH, in other words for every KWH they produce they will receive a benefit equivalent to buying 2.8KWH at the normal domestic rate. “The aim of the game must be to have every Queensland household producing clean solar energy. When there are solar panels on every home and every roof in Queensland generating clean power gets the same benefit as every dirty coal power station we’ll be well on the way to winning the struggle against Global Warming.” concluded Hutcheon. |