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\"How<\/a>

How will solar fare under Abbott and the Coalition?<\/p><\/div>\n

Here at SQHQ \u2014 as with all of those supporting alternative energy \u2014 we\u2019re surveying the damage after the Coalition’s expected yet stunning landslide win on Saturday night. Both the Liberals and Nationals took a slash and burn approach to solar power in Australia and the whole renewable energy sector during the campaign. This approach included policy announcements such as the gutting of ARENA and the end of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and “Sloppy” Joe and his finance mates have given no inkling of changing their minds on this all important issue. See last week\u2019s article for more details.<\/a><\/p>\n

However before we start circling the wagons and filling the moats to prepare ourselves for the expected onslaught, perhaps its time for solar energy fans to look at the positives. I know many of you will be thinking your correspondent has finally taken leave of his senses here but bear with me, there are some good things to be sifted from the wreckage, though you may have to look carefully!<\/p>\n

Firstly as discussed in previous articles the overwhelming mandate handed to the Coalition at least ensures a form of stability (at least at the federal level). This has been lacking as solar investors close the purse strings while they await the result of the election. Gone is the previous confusion over Government policy on renewable energy, as we can be fairly sure that incentives such as the carbon tax, federal funding for renewables agencies will be slashed in favour of a more market-based approach.<\/p>\n

So where\u2019s the positive in all this I hear you say (yell)? Well the argument being tentatively developed here around the SQHQ water cooler is a variation of the one we\u2019ve been calling for for a number of years. That of giving investors, including small time investors, a degree of certainty in the solar marketplace. A level playing field if you like to allow them to make long term decisions about investments in solar power. Australia\u2019s renewable energy sector may well benefit from this surety.<\/p>\n

Secondly the next three years will show how well alternative energy such as solar has grown. More importantly it will show that that it doesn\u2019t need the full time support of governments and can more or less take care of itself in the market place. This may surprise, even shock, those in the more traditional areas of energy extraction.<\/p>\n

The sector may well show that it is unstoppable despite the best efforts of any policies that could be conceived as being anti renewables. New developments and breakthroughs in technology appear to occur on a weekly basis. The latest example of this comes from China, our very pro-solar energy neighbours to the North.<\/p>\n

A September 3 press release from China Sunergy<\/a>\u00a0(AKA CSun) has announced the successful development of a new generation of high-efficiency mono-crystalline solar cells. “New generation” sounds impressive and it is. The company claims a Usain Bolt-esque 20.26% conversion efficiency with these solar cells which gets the coveted nod of approval from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems<\/a> ISE, the largest solar research institute in Europe.<\/p>\n

CSun’s competitor, Sunpower may have already cracked the 20% efficiency barrier for a solar cell a couple of years ago, but those Sunpower panels have always been jolly expensive compared to most of the competition. The fact that a Tier 1 Chinese manufacturer has cracked 20% can only push prices of the most efficient solar panels, down, down, down.<\/p>\n

These breakthroughs and other similar advancements are being made at lightning speed in the solar energy sector as well with big contributions in high efficient solar cells coming from research institutions in our own sunburned land. This combined with the public\u2019s interest to be a part of the solar revolution in Australia including the take up of domestic solar systems \u2014 even in the face of state government slashing of feed-in tariffs \u2014 means solar energy and renewable energy is here to stay in Australia.<\/p>\n

So will the Australian solar industry be able to survive a Coalition government? Will renewables in general flourish under an Abbott-led government? We believe so but what do you think? Do you agree or do you think we’re talking out of our inverters again? Your thoughts (as always) are most welcome below or over at our Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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