{"id":3642,"date":"2014-05-13T01:12:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:34:03","slug":"oz-thrashed-auld-enemy-solar-pv-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oz-thrashed-auld-enemy-solar-pv-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"What? Oz thrashed by Poms on solar PV installation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3649\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/solar-medal-uk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3649\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/solar-medal-uk.jpg\" alt=\"union jack\" width=\"650\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Poms have come from behind to give us a thrashing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We Aussies hate to be trumped by another nation in any field of endeavour. Whether on the sporting field, in battle or in the latest scientific innovation, we like to think we always &#8220;punch above our weight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine our horror then, when we learned of being completely spanked by the land of grey skies and shitty weather in an area we should call our very own: \u00a0solar PV installations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sad (for us) score card runs as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>United Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Target set of 20 GW of solar installs by 2020.<\/li>\n<li>325 solar farms completed with MW capability, 124 with planning approval.<\/li>\n<li>Expected average installation rate for 2014: 2,500MW &#8211; 3,000MW.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dodgy review set up to rip the Renewable Energy Target (RET) to shreds.<\/li>\n<li>One MegaWatt class solar farm in operation,in WA, just a handful in the works.<\/li>\n<li>Average 800MW per year install rate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/2014\/uk-will-install-3-times-more-solar-than-australia-in-2014-77674\" target=\"_blank\">recent article by the highly-recommended Giles Parkinson<\/a>, the secret of the UK&#8217;s stunning success lay in their emphasis on encouraging the construction of large scale solar PV farms. This contrasts with the consumer-driven, rooftop solar energy sector here in Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The driving force behind the UK solar boom, according to US-based industry analysts NPD Solarbuzz, is the rapid growth of megawatt-scale, ground mounted solar PV farms, and the release of a government-mandated target of 20GW for solar installs by 2020,&#8221; said Mr Parkinson adding that the Land of Hope and Glory is set to lead Europe in solar PV in the near future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dare we call the Cameron government &#8220;forward thinking&#8221;? Have they hit on a solar PV installation formula so well suited to their drizzly and foggy clime that they will retain and keep the Ashes of solar PV well into the next generation? Surely not readers.<\/p>\n<p>The setting of a target by 2020 on renewables sounds vaguely familiar doesn&#8217;t it readers? I seem to recall that crazy Greenie John Howard setting a similar style of target to provide\u00a0certainty in the renewables market place?<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it is the expected shredding of this RET that is causing a spectacular stalling of billions of dollars of solar PV investment in Australia according to John Grimes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/solar.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Solar Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it looks like we are\u00a0doomed to pander to\u00a0the fossil fuel lobbyists and sink further into a planet-warming, environment-destroying, expensive energy future.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps lose the renewable energy Ashes for all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Aussies hate to be trumped by another nation in any field of endeavour. Whether on the sporting field, in battle or in the latest scientific innovation, we like to think we always &#8220;punch above our weight&#8221;. 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