RENEWABLE ENERGY: "All new homes should have 'solar' option: LNP"

Brisbane Times
15 October 2008

All new homes in Queensland should have the option of a roof-top solar energy system covered by a gross feed-in tariff, the Liberal National Party has said.

The LNP's climate change spokesman, David Gibson, called on the State Government to adopt a gross feed-in tariff and reject its current net feed-in tariff, which pays a rebate to people with solar panels only if they produce enough energy to put electricity back into Queensland's grid.

This follows figures showing the Sunshine State has one of Australia's lowest take-up rates for solar technology...

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