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BY Tali Aaron : February 22

Australians Will Be Able to Earn $10,000 a Year for Supplying Grid from Rooftop Solar

residential solar panel installation


The New South Wales government has just introduced a Solar Bonus Scheme that allows residents to earn as much as $10,000 a year to send clean electricity to the grid from solar panels on their own roofs. The incentive is a Feed-in Tariff, which is a cash payment for renewable electricity produced by anybody. Any extra electricity you produce that goes to the grid is paid for by your utility. New South Wales is actually paying grid contributors three times the cost of a kwh purchased from the grid - so if a kwh costs 19 cents, those contributing clean power make 60 cents per kwh. Pretty sweet deal. Hopefully this will make solar take off in Australia to the same degree it did in Germany when Germany offered such incentives.

[via Cleantechnica]

8 Responses to Australians Will Be Able to Earn $10,000 a Year for Supplying Grid from Rooftop Solar

  1. rateitgreen on September 5, 2012 at 4:08 pm


    RT @cleangreenpro: Aussies to earn up to $10K/Yr to supply #Solar #energy to grid! http://t.co/o7MXAVoY #cleantech #greenbuilding #altenergy

  2. buildaroo on September 5, 2012 at 8:02 am


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  3. Camco on March 26, 2012 at 10:56 am


    Australians Will Be Able to Earn $10,000 a Year for Supplying Grid... http://t.co/NXX0JECK #eco #cleantech #greenbuilding #renewableenergy

  4. buildaroo on March 26, 2012 at 10:33 am


    Australians Will Be Able to Earn $10,000 a Year for Supplying Grid... http://t.co/NXX0JECK #eco #cleantech #greenbuilding #renewableenergy

  5. buildaroo on February 20, 2011 at 7:36 pm


    Australians Will Be Able to Earn $10,000 a Year for Supplying Grid... http://bit.ly/760VhE #eco #cleantech #greenbuilding #renewableenergy

  6. esterinkisi on July 14, 2010 at 12:33 am


    bizde çatılarımızda bu yeni uygulamaları başlatmak istiyoruz bu samimi isteğimizi şirket yetkililerine duyurun onlarla karşılıklı iş yapalım kazan kazan yöntemiyle

  7. Judy Harper on January 6, 2010 at 9:27 pm


    RT @buildaroo: #Solar incentive, Australians 2 earn $10,000/year 4 supplying grid from rooftop solar http://bit.ly/760VhE #renewableenergy


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