{"id":24953,"date":"2018-10-11T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=24953"},"modified":"2018-10-11T07:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:51:54","slug":"solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls For Solar Subsidy Scrapping At Major Australian Energy Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24954\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24954\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-rebate-end.jpg\" alt=\"An early end to Australia's solar subsidy?\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-rebate-end.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-rebate-end-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-rebate-end-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/hack-stock-wood-ax-axe-make-wood-2137733\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">braetschit<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Banging of the solar subsidy-axing drum grew louder yesterday at The Australian Financial Review National Energy Summit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Echoing his comments <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.nine.com.au\/2018\/08\/16\/18\/05\/end-rooftop-solar-subsidies-origin-boss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made in August<\/a>, Origin Energy managing director Frank Calabria said he wants solar subsidies shown the door sooner rather than later, even though Australia&#8217;s national subsidy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-rebate-ending\/\">already being gradually phased out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need to phase out the small-scale renewables scheme, it does not need subsidies any more, it is growing, it breaks records of volumes on to rooves every month and we know just how competitive that industry is, so it needs to be phased out,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/business\/energy\/origin-energyaustralia-urge-end-to-solar-subsidies-amid-grid-anarchy-20181009-h16fhk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> (paywall) Mr. Calabria on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we reported last week, Australia\u2019s Clean Energy Regulator estimates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-power-installations-australia-mb0771\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,600 megawatts of small scale solar capacity<\/a> will be installed this year, a 44% jump on 2017. According to the Regulator, more than 1.9 million small-scale solar power systems had been installed across Australia as at August 31, representing nearly 7.4GW of capacity.<\/p>\n<p>EnergyAustralia&#8217;s head of energy Mark Collette agreed with Mr. Calabria&#8217;s view, stating PV uptake was &#8220;running faster than a freight train&#8221; and didn&#8217;t require subsidies any more.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Consumers Australia chief executive Rosemary Sinclair was reported as stating the impact of removing the subsidy on solar adoption &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be very large&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That view is certainly debatable. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/cost\/\">cost of solar panels<\/a> is low thanks to the subsidy (aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar rebate<\/a>) that knocks thousands off the cost of an average-size solar power system. Removal of the subsidy could put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> out of reach of large number of households and lock them into ongoing high electricity bills. There would be many families without a spare extra few thousand dollars kicking around to make up the difference in a post-subsidy Australia (although some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solarfinance.html\">finance options<\/a> may be viable).<\/p>\n<p>Also still keen to see the solar rebate prematurely axed is the Australian Competition &amp; Consumer Commission . An ACCC report released in July recommended Australia\u2019s small-scale renewable energy scheme (SRES) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/accc-solar-subsidy-mb0663\/\">should be wound down and abolished<\/a> by 2021. This is even though it will reduce household electricity bills in the short term by only 1% and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/accc-solar-rebate\/\">likely to increase them<\/a> over the longer term.<\/p>\n<p>ACCC chairman Rod Sims was at the Summit yesterday and reiterated his view it was time for solar subsidies to go.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage it&#8217;s still not clear if this ACCC recommendation will be implemented by the Morrison Government, but Minister For Getting Electricity Prices Down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?s=angus+taylor\">Angus Taylor<\/a> has not yet ruled out the premature axing of the SRES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banging of the solar subsidy-axing drum grew louder yesterday at The Australian Financial Review National Energy Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Calls For Solar Subsidy Scrapping At Major Australian Energy Summit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Banging of the solar power subsidy-axing drum grew louder yesterday at The Australian Financial Review National Energy Summit.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Calls For Solar Subsidy Scrapping At Major Australian Energy Summit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Banging of the solar power subsidy-axing drum grew louder yesterday at The Australian Financial Review National Energy Summit.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-10T20:51:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-rebate-end.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"522\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Calls For Solar Subsidy Scrapping At Major Australian Energy Summit\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-10T20:51:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781\/\"},\"wordCount\":436,\"commentCount\":7,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-subsidy-scrapping-mb0781\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/solar-rebate-end.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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