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Playing politics with PV

Australia: In the first half of 2014, Australia installed around 320 MW of solar PV and the Australian Solar Council expects the figure at years end to reach around 700 MW. High electricity prices and ample sunshine make conditions perfect for PV, so this should be a given, but there are forces at work against PV Down Under, and they are taking aim at a range of policies and institutions.

By

Jonathan Gifford

11 Aug 2014

The carbon tax is dead; long live the emissions trading scheme. Australia took a bold step away from climate mitigation policy last month, with parliament scrapping the carbon price. It had been one of the key policy objectives for Prime Minister Tony Abbott and, as political observers noted, was a process that began back in …

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