{"id":4426,"date":"2015-01-19T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T04:58:56","slug":"huge-jump-queensland-commercial-solar-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/huge-jump-queensland-commercial-solar-installations\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Jump in Queensland Commercial Solar Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Offices and Factories in QLD are installing solar at an increasing rate.<\/p><\/div>\n

We\u2019ve documented before the lack of love of the Newman government towards solar energy in Queensland. In the midst of a state election where the shrill rhetoric is\u00a0matched only by the embarrassing speed of the election call, the level of antipathy has risen as the LNP seek to demolish the arguments of the pro-renewables lobby.<\/p>\n

However, despite the LNP\u2019s efforts, it seems an important chunk of their traditional electorate aren’t listening.<\/p>\n

The LNP has always counted upon support from small businesses, the farming sector and the more conservative elements of the community. However recent evidence has shown some important support among small business to be evaporating. At least over renewable energy.<\/p>\n

As Giles Parkinson points out in his 16th January article<\/a>, published in RenewEconomy, an extra 7MW of rooftop solar was\u00a0installed with 156 Queensland businesses switching to commercial\u00a0solar in the southeast of the state in the last six months. This to offset the massive hike in electricity prices by the power companies.<\/p>\n

These small to medium companies are responding to the huge blowout in energy costs by rejecting the Campbell Newman\u2019s anti-renewables rhetoric. You could say they’re voting with their rooftops by making\u00a0Queensland commercial solar one of the fastest growing segments of the solar industry.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in contrast to the LNP, the Queensland Greens have launched their own energy policy, this spruiking the value of government support for solar energy in Queensland. Australian Greens leader Christine Milne has called for major investment in solar energy in Queensland including the following:<\/p>\n