| Carbon Week |
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NSW planned a feed in tariff for solar. It was not clear if it was to be gross (like the ACT) or net (like SA and Queensland), ACT residents were get paid up to $0.60 per KwH for any energy produced by their solar panels. This was an increase of 3.88 times the standard rate paid for electricity. The NSW Solar Feed-in Tariff Scheme was to apply to solar only “small scale, grid connected, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels”, but might add other micro-generation later.
(Full Article)The NSW Government Solar Photovoltaic (PV) feed-in tariff (FiT) will pay customers for electricity they put into the grid from roof-top solar panels.
(Full Article)The NSW Auditor, Peter Achterstraat in an unusual note to Delta Electricity 2007 - 2008 annual report said his report could not provide assurance about the future viability of the corporation. He warned the valuation of its power stations -were proposed at about $1.5 billion - and had increased about $200 million since a last year, but, the value was in fact, unknown, due to the impact of carbon policy.
(Full Article)Lake Alexandrina likely to fall below the record low level of -0.5 m AHD set in May 2008; ecological collpase would follow, and it was possible the water system would become forever unusuable for freshwater storage, with six weeks.
(Full Article)The Bureau of Meteorologys latest outlook for total rainfall during summer (December to February) shows a moderate shift in the odds favouring wetter than normal conditions over north-eastern NSW.
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