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O.T Carbon Tax v's PV ecomonic? but for who 16-Aug-2011 At 6:43:05 PM uwhp510

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An often overlooked factor in the economics of small scale domestic solar power generation is the savings in the construction and maintenance of grid infrastructure provided by the decentralisation of power sources and of course the co-location generation and consumption points. I'm not making any claims about the size of the saving relative to the costs of the feed in tariff, but I'm sure they're not insignificant, particularly given that NSW has been under-investing in power generation and grid infrastructure for years, which everyone is just now having to paying for.

PS Maybe if the liberals didn't hate scientists and economists so much, we might have seen some more long term thinking in terms of investment in renewable energy industries 10 years ago, and we could have been developing producing and exporting our own solar panels? Better late than never hey?