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n energy revolution
is at hand in Australia, as the arrival of home batteries combines with the
falling cost of solar panels to transform the centralised grid.
But for its benefits to be spread fairly and efficiently,
governments must avoid the mistakes of the past by rejecting expensive
subsidies and by setting charges that reflect the true cost of providing
electricity.
In the first phase of large-scale growth in solar, lavish
feed-in tariff schemes introduced between 2008 and 2011 encouraged 1.4 million
households to install panels on their roofs – the highest proportion of
households of any country.
Read the Grattan
Institute story - “Sundown, sunrise: how Australia can finally get solar power right”.
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