The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) estimates that power prices will fall over the next two year as more solar and wind capacity comes online across the country.
Solar feed-in tariffs are schemes to encourage households to go green. Households receive incentives for electricity fed back into the Australian electricity grid. They are from a renewable electricity generation source, such as rooftop solar panel systems or wind turbine.
Residents on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula could win one of three Flex Home Energy Monitors and a $500 voucher towards solar or battery installation. The Mornington Peninsula solar scene is boosted by the new initiative promoting better energy efficiency that was launched on the peninsula last week.
ARENA has awarded $6 million to Queanbeyan-based GreatCell Solar to commercially manufacture Perovskite solar cells.