{"id":163,"date":"2010-09-17T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T06:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2016-05-31T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T05:23:42","slug":"act-announces-improved-feed-in-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-announces-improved-feed-in-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT announces improved Feed In Tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT government made a welcome announcement about their, already generous, <a href=\"http:\/\/solarquotes.com.au\/solar-feed-in-tariffs-explained.html\">Feed In Tariff<\/a>, last week.<\/p>\n<p>The main points were:<\/p>\n<p>The FIT now applies to &#8220;community owned&#8221; solar systems. That means that if your roof is shaded and you want to club together with others in the same position and install a system on the local RSL (for example) there is nothing to stop you getting the FIT and sharing the rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you live in units, you can get a shared system on the roof of the unit block.<\/p>\n<p>The Feed In Tariff will be applicable for systems up to a whopping 30kW, so it becomes quite an interesting investment proposition in today&#8217;s volatile market. ( This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/calc3\/indexsavings.php\">solar calculator <\/a>will crunch the numbers if you&#8217;re interested).<\/p>\n<p>They also announced FITs for large scale solar. here are the details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overall scheme cap of 240 MW of generating capacity;<\/li>\n<li>Large scale generation category for generators larger than 200 KW (category cap of 210 MW);<\/li>\n<li>Medium scale generation category for generators between 30KW and 200kw (category cap of 15 MW); and,<\/li>\n<li>Existing micro generation category (household rooftop) up to 30KW (category cap of 15 MW).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the funding has come from the axing of plans to fund a $30 &#8220;Solar Facility&#8221; in ACT (whatever that was meant to be &#8211; probably was gonna be a bunch of public servants running around and racking up platinum frquent flyer accounts writing reports and attending conferences on how to reduce CO2 emissions &#8211; if my experience at CSIRO was anything to go by&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>In summary &#8211; great news from the land of the public servants &#8211; now we just need Julia Gillard to make all their legislation redundant by announcing a national FIT &#8230; we can but hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACT Feed In Tariff has been improved. 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