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Synergy’s proposal to effectively double the cost of connecting WA solar households to the grid with a sun tax has been slammed as unjust.
The Western Australia-owned electricity company Synergy will be putting approximately 191,000 solar homes at the front of the tax.
Synergy chairman Lyndon Rowe floated the proposal just last week. As a result of the tax, home owners in WA who have made an investment in solar systems could be seeing a hefty $846 dollar increase on their annual electricity bill.
The wheels are in motion for DP Energy’s proposed 375 MW combined wind and solar power plant, after the company lodged a development application earlier this week.
The application seeks approval for the installation of up to 59 wind turbines, which would result in 206 MW of wind generation capacity, and up to 400 hectares of solar PV arrays. The plant will be on the coastal plain south east of Port Augusta in South Australia.
More than a quarter of all electricity system expenditure in Australia out to 2050 is likely to be made by consumers; on items including solar power systems and battery storage. The forecast has been made by the Electricity Network Transformation Roadmap project; a joint effort of the CSIRO and the Energy Networks Association (ENA); based on long term scenario analysis to 2050.
Western Australia’s more than 191,000 solar homeowners are angered by a plan from the State-owned electricity provider Synergy to slug solar rooftop owners with an unfair ‘sun tax’.
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