Thousands of households in Queensland seem to be missing out on a lifetime opportunity to save more on their power bills with the electricity rebate. Time is money and the choices that consumers make today will determine their electricity costs in the future.

The New Year came with changes that affected various solar feed-in tariff schemes in some Australian states. Apparently, the adjustments made to the New South Wales had the most impact on solar homes and businesses.

The legacy Transitional and Standard Feed-in Tariff Schemes (TFiT and SFiT) in Victoria have been drawn to a close, impacting about 70,000 solar homes and businesses.

The first round of the Advanced Energy Challenge (AEC) for the New South Wales Government is inviting proposals on energy storage. The AEC will support projects focused on helping the state transit to a more secure, affordable, reliable and sustainable energy future.

Queenslanders have a reason to smile after the Queensland Government ruled out closure of its solar feed-in tariff program known as the Solar Bonus Scheme.

A move by electricity provider TRUenergy to cut their solar rebate to Central Coast customers by 6 cents per kWh on July 1 has sparked outrage.

GENEROUS incentives for installing solar panels and returning power to the electricity grid are the latest victims of State Government cost-cutting. Despite an election commitment to “maintain the Solar Bonus Scheme“, Energy Minister Mark McArdle yesterday announced changes which will see the rebate for new installations reduced from 44 cents per kW/h to just 8 cents per kW/h.

The end of the Solar Bonus Scheme If you were thinking of installing solar panels on your roof in NSW in order to take advantage of some of the government incentives for home-based solar power, you’re all out of luck.