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Solar Feed In Tariffs axed in Queensland<\/p><\/div>\n

Unsurprising news this week that solar feed-in tariffs in Queensland will be cut from one of the country\u2019s most generous (0.44c per kilowatt hour) to 0.8 cents per kilowatt hour has led the solar news this week in Australia.<\/p>\n

Regular readers of this column may be expecting your correspondent to fly off into an anti-state government tirade about favouring earth-destroying fossil fuels over the renewable energy industry.<\/p>\n

Maybe something about the pollies\u2019 almost kneejerk reaction to slash subsidies to solar industries as soon as they enter office? (At least \u201cNo Can Do\u201d Newman had the good grace to wait a few months before slashing the solar subsidy). Or a good old fashioned rant about the effectiveness of our state and federal governments in managing a sustainable energy policy (stop me)?<\/p>\n

But no, I\u2019d like to interrupt the rant to pick up on a point made by Mark \u201cThe Knife\u201d McArdle, the state’s Energy and Water Supply Minister responsible for the slashing of the feed-in tariff in Queensland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a media release of June 26 announcing the cut<\/a>, the minister appears to play politics with the issue implying that the feed-in tariff had been slashed due to the introduction of the carbon tax. The timing of the announcement surely seems to confirm this.<\/p>\n

However the interesting comment buried deep in the press release was that the minister believed \u201c…investing in…photovoltaic cells would help keep the future cost of electricity down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Say what minister? When most of your conservative colleagues (led wholeheartedly by the Murdoch press) throughout the country are insisting in the fiction that solar energy will drive up the price of electricity? This in the same breath as saying the world will end upon the introduction of the carbon tax?<\/p>\n

If the minister believes solar will help keep electricity prices down, shouldn\u2019t the Queensland Government be supporting the future in energy needs through such assistance as, say, a decent solar feed-in tariff?<\/p>\n

But that would be a logical process governed by decisions based on reason and correct economic modelling. Perhaps we can only expect this when the renewable energy industry throws up a mega tonnage, mega influence-seeking trillionaire with lobbying dollars to burn and political parties to purchase? Or am I being a bit harsh here readers?<\/p>\n

Your comments are, of course, always welcome, here or on our Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As was widely expected, the new QLD government finally axed their generous Feed In Tariff last week. 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First, The Bad News On Wednesday, the Queensland Competition Authority delivered a shock to residential and small business electricity customers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General Solar & Storage News"","block_context":{"text":"General Solar & Storage News","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-battery-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Regional Queensland solar feed-in tariff","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/regional-qld-solar.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/regional-qld-solar.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/regional-qld-solar.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/regional-qld-solar.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/regional-qld-solar.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":56878,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/small-solar-higher-tariff\/","url_meta":{"origin":1773,"position":4},"title":"Don’t Install A Smaller Solar System To Get A Higher Feed In Tariff. Here’s Why..","author":"Ronald Brakels","date":"December 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Finding a high feed-in tariff is becoming harder. Our feed-in-tariff comparison tool makes the job easier, but increasingly electricity retailers are putting system size limits on their most generous solar feed-in rates. In South East Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia, some retailers' highest solar feed-in tariff is only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Solar Installation"","block_context":{"text":"Solar Installation","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/solar-installation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Solar feed in tariffs and system size limits","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/no-limits.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/no-limits.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/no-limits.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/no-limits.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/no-limits.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":49859,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/compare-regional-qld-electricity\/","url_meta":{"origin":1773,"position":5},"title":"Regional Queensland Has Electricity Retailer Choice. But Which Is Cheapest?","author":"Ronald Brakels","date":"May 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you live in regional Queensland? \u00a0Do you think your only choice of electricity retailer is Ergon Energy? Then I have exciting news for you. \u00a0You can choose who bills you for electricity. This is not a new thing.\u00a0 But many people aren't aware of it.\u00a0 Until recently, this included\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Electricity Prices"","block_context":{"text":"Electricity Prices","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/electricity-prices\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qld-retailer-choice.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qld-retailer-choice.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qld-retailer-choice.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qld-retailer-choice.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/qld-retailer-choice.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13566,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/13566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}