Not anymore, he was tossed out in the last election, or should I say out-campaigned by Joy Burch (also ALP — we have multi-member electorates).

You actually have an elected representative by the name of Gentleman … golly! And he’s a Labor member !! Canberra really IS different, eh?

Poor question. You like solar PV, “but will they do it?”?

Huh? They are doing it where I live.

I agree that $/CO2 doesn’t give the whole picture, but that cuts both ways with renewables.

Poor question. You like solar PV, “but will they do it?”?

http://www.feedintariff.com.au/tariff-faq.php

There’s a petition there too. Cheers.

This is not a new idea, but as I understand it there are a lot of such generators which aren’t set up to do a grid feed, and could do so at not a huge amount of extra cost.

But will they do it? It’s not like these sorts of brown-out issues haven’t happened before. The PV panels by design produce peak power when it is most required**. Seems like a better engineered design to me.

I guess I just wanted to point out that the simple $/kg of C02 number might not tell the whole story with PVs. I wonder how much the power supply companies would be prepared to pay for 50MW of peak power capacity when they need it. Not only that, but the fact that they don’t then need to build more transmission infrastructure to carry it from the entirely parrot friendly wind farm.

** Actually they probably don’t. They are fairly sensitive to temperature and will output less electricity the hotter they get, but maybe only 10-20% less …

Laura @ 102 – apparently there is an older some scheme for landlords as well, though probably not as generous. And I doubt the cost and hassle of giving notice to one tenant, installing the insulation, leaving it unrented for long enough to demonstrate that its owner occupied and then finding another tenant would be worth it. Especially when landlords eventually can get a bit of a deduction for the cost of insulation anyway.

Robert @ 105 – and its probably even worth paying companies who are willing, to reduce their usage during peak times when full generation capacity gets reached. Cheaper than increasing peak load capacity.