Australia has the most expensive energy bills

Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by grecy on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:58AM (#14585252)

> Sort of on-topic but I recall once an Australian company called Enviromission that was wanting to build solar updraft towers in the outback

Funny you call it "the outback". Their final proposed site was 20km from my then family home :)

I was disappointed it never went anywhere, and yes, Australians should be adopting solar much, much faster than they are.

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by zizee on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:16AM (#14586029)

Australia is one of the top adopters of PV solar in the world. Granted, we are not yet at the level of Germany (500MW per million head), but we're doing ok at 250 MW per million head of population. Half the number of Germany might sound pretty poor, but it is twice that of the USA (125), Spain (118) and a a lot more than the UK (178).

Last year saw overall production increase by 13% and there are a lot of big projects in the pipeline.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-29/australia-on-cusp-of-l...

I think that you'll find people have been biding their time until the economics looked favourable, which isn't so silly in my opinion.

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by GlennS on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:26AM (#14586358)

Australia damn well ought to have more solar PV installed than the UK given that the UK is about 30 degrees further from the equator.

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by falsedan on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:48AM (#14586881)

*20 (unless you're comparing Cairns to Wick)

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by Overtonwindow on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:42PM (#14589303)

Forgive me, I am an American :)

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