Canberra May Become Full-Time Solar Powered Soon

There are already around 50 homes in Canberra, Australia which make use of solar power. And according to the country’s officials, they are planning on paying these solar power using households four times than what they are receiving now “for the unused electricity they sell back to the power grid”.

The officials believe that this could be a good way so as to increase awareness among consumers and residents of Canberra. They also believe that this would be able to help increase the total number of people who use solar power in their homes. Come to think of it, this could work out well for people would be helping the environment and they would also be able to receive money for solar energy that was not used.

Mr. Gentleman, one of the people behind this plan, shares, “With this feed-in law that I’m proposing, you should see that paid off in under 10 years. Currently, you receive an income for the electricity but it’s at the same rate that is paid for bulk electricity purchase so it takes 40 years to pay it off.”

[Via Herald Sun]
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