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As the fireworks erupted from Sydney Harbour Bridge at 12:01am January 1 2010, the NSW Solar Bonus Scheme opened for business. It means that NSW solar panel owners will be able to collect 60c for every kWh produced for at least the next 7 years.<\/p>\n
It will be available to panel buyers until all the installed generators under this Scheme \u00a0reach 50 MegaWatts.<\/p>\n
Panel owners who are eligible are the small electricity consumers. They are those consuming up to 160 megawatt hours of electricity annually.<\/p>\n
Generally, this includes typical households,schools, small businesses and most community organizations.<\/p>\n
Under this scheme, people will be able to get Solar PV Systems and Wind Turbines up to 10 kiloWatts in size.<\/p>\n
According to Energy Minister John Robertson, the industry is expecting to install around 33,000 new solar systems during the life of the program.<\/p>\n
The government is banking on solar PV costs decreasing over the next few years. Many are expecting that within the next 3 to 7 years, solar energy’s unsubsidized cost to consumers will be near that of dirty fossil based generation.<\/p>\n
But in the mean time, the NSW Gross Feed In Tariff is giving a head start to the NSW solar industry so they can tool up, scale up and bring costs down and ROI up for Solar PV buyers.<\/p>\n
Let’s hope the Feds watch and learn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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