Featured in China's strength – 05-2014

Review, repeal, reinvent

Australia: As one of the first countries to arrive and then accelerate past retail grid parity, Australia had the makings of a solar darling. However government measures are rapidly putting up obstacles to the rapid growth of solar in the country as vested interests and incumbent fossil fuel generators appear to be doing an effective job of striking back against PV.

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Jonathan Gifford

08 May 2014

Late last month, Earth Day celebrated its 44th birthday, marking a significant moment in the struggles of the modern environmental movement. One of the successes that can be heralded by environmentalists, researchers and the cleantech movement is the rapid fall in the cost of solar PV. Deployment of PV has been a major success story …

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