{"id":32166,"date":"2019-07-22T08:28:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T21:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=32166"},"modified":"2019-07-22T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T21:58:36","slug":"victoria-solar-action-mb1142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-action-mb1142\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria&#8217;s Day Of Solar Action This Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/victoria-solar-rally-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Solar Rally\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/victoria-solar-rally-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/victoria-solar-rally-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/victoria-solar-rally-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/victoria-solar-rally.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A rally on the steps of Victoria&#8217;s Parliament House this Thursday will endeavour to get it through the Victorian Government&#8217;s skull that not only is the nature of the Solar Homes PV rebate crippling the state&#8217;s solar industry, many Victorians are missing out on reaping the benefits of solar power.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we recently reported, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vic-solar-industry-crisis-mb1138\/\">rebate cock-up is already claiming victims<\/a>. At a webinar held last week by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartenergy.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smart Energy Council<\/a>, attendees heard a number of harrowing examples of workers being laid off and businesses going bust; or on the verge of doing so. The situation has been communicated to the Victorian Government, but appears to have fallen on selectively deaf ears.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Victorian Government don&#8217;t get it,&#8221; says SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock, who will be attending the rally this week. &#8220;They don&#8217;t believe solar workers are losing their jobs, companies are closing and families are losing their homes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Kneecapping Residential Solar In Victoria<\/h2>\n<p>For all the cost, complexity and trauma involved with the rebooted scheme, it will provide little benefit in terms of boosting solar uptake in the state as the new quota of 3,333 rebates issued a month is effectively acting as a cap on activity. The following indicates the number of installations in Victoria in the four months prior to significant rebate-related installation activity last year. The rebate was announced in the latter half of August 2018, so installations under the scheme wouldn&#8217;t have begun to really kick into gear until September.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 2018 &#8211; 3,223 installations<\/li>\n<li>June 2018 &#8211; 3,025 installations<\/li>\n<li>July 2018 &#8211; 3,102 installations<\/li>\n<li>August 2018 &#8211; 3,509 installation<br \/>\n(Source: Clean Energy Regulator)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among its recommendations, the Smart Energy Council is suggesting the rebate be halved so the monthly rebate quota can be doubled.<\/p>\n<p>The huge demand for the rebate is also covering up other issues including how challenging it is to apply for; with some saying the process is more difficult than securing a mortgage in terms of identity verification &#8211; and subsequently abandoning it.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the rebate has also had an effect of recently <a href=\"https:\/\/onestepoffthegrid.com.au\/rooftop-solar-prices-spike-in-victoria-up-13-in-july\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">driving up system prices<\/a>, not through greed but through the inability of businesses to sustain lower prices given the administrative burden and other challenges created by the scheme.<\/p>\n<h2>Victoria Solar Rally Details<\/h2>\n<p>The rally is being held by the Smart Energy Council in collaboration with campaign partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarcutters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SolarCutters<\/a>, a community of industry participants dedicated to quality solar and supporting individuals who are passionate about creating change within the Australian solar energy industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Steps of Victoria Parliament House, Spring Street, Melbourne<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> 10:30 AM, 25 July 2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/business.facebook.com\/events\/482571129171502\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Further information<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you work in solar. If your family is affected. If you have missed out on the rebate. We need you,&#8221; says the Smart Energy Council. &#8220;This is your chance to force a change. Be there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As mentioned last week, it&#8217;s not just solar businesses, workers\/their families and those who haven&#8217;t been able to secure a rebate who are and will be affected by the current situation. Existing system owners have a stake in this situation too. If installers go out of business, that leaves their customers without support and facing difficulties should they need to make a warranty-related claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rally on the steps of Victoria&#8217;s Parliament House this Thursday will endeavour to get it through the Victorian Government&#8217;s skull that not only is the nature of the Solar Homes PV rebate crippling the state&#8217;s solar industry, many Victorians are missing out on reaping the benefits of solar power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":32167,"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-32166","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>Victoria&#039;s Day Of Solar Action This Thursday - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A rally to be held in Melbourne this Thursday will highlight the disaster caused by the Andrews Goverment&#039;s botched rejiggered Solar Homes PV rebate.\" \/>\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\/victoria-solar-action-mb1142\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s Day Of Solar Action This Thursday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A rally to be held in Melbourne this Thursday will highlight the disaster caused by the Andrews Goverment&#039;s botched rejiggered Solar Homes PV rebate.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-action-mb1142\/\" \/>\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=\"2019-07-21T21:58:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/victoria-solar-rally.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\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\/victoria-solar-action-mb1142\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-action-mb1142\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Victoria&#8217;s Day Of Solar Action This Thursday\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-21T21:58:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-action-mb1142\/\"},\"wordCount\":537,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-solar-action-mb1142\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/victoria-solar-rally.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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