Solar Revolution in Australia

With the increasing popularity of solar power, Australians are rapidly on the road to energy saving lives, and the power companies also feel unprecedented threat. According to the Australian Climate Commission report, it shows that currently more than 10% (about 250 million) of Australians are using solar energy for home. It is reported that there were only 8,000 people used solar energy in 2007 while in 2013, a total of more than 100 million households install solar home system on their roof. Among them, solar energy is the most popular in Queensland, Victoria Island and New South Wales.

Climate Committee Principal Tim Flannery called this phenomenon solar revolution. He said, over the past five years, the development of solar energy in the country is surprising. You can say that from the estimation of the solar industry made previously by the government." He added that it all has just begun, solar thermal power would be the next stop for renewable energy revolution. There is a phenomenon that people who install portable solar panel for home are not rich. They are fixed income persons, particularly those who are sensitive on the rise of the electricity charge year by year, and bear a heavy mortgage.
For electricity companies, when a family installs solar systems, it means the power company loses a customer. This will eventually lead to the domestic electricity market shrinking. Meanwhile, the future of solar energy will be a threat to all other forms of power source.

Tim Flannery said: "Now some new energy technology has begun to spread, one of which is solar thermal, which enables users to use the solar-generated electricity in 24 hours. It is expected that solar panels price will continue to decline. In the near future, even tenants can enjoy the solar energy like owners. Then everyone can go to the supermarket to buy solar panels and mount to the roof of their own.

Currently, governments around Australia have been burdened with the pressure to repeal the power buyback system (feed-in-tariffs). That is the government purchases electricity from consumers install solar system and return the national grid system. Tim Flannery said, under the system, consumers can obtain lucrative profit. Only in the past four years, the cost of solar panels will significantly reduce by 80%, even subsidies eliminate, and the industry is still able to rapidly develop. So not only is the Australian Government's electricity buyback system should be abolished worldwide.

In the Committee's view of climate, Australia ranks first in individual installation solar systems, but the German solar panels generating capacity ranks the world. Tim Flannery believes Australia has abundant sunshine, and will be able to catch up with Germany. Australia has quietly become one of the world's ninth largest solar PV market and the major solar market in the Asia-Pacific region. Only in 2011 PV production growth in Asia Pacific region reached 165%, and by 2015 the Asia-Pacific region is expected to reach a quarter of the global PV demand total. Australia occupies a strategic advantage in the prospects of prosperity in the Asia-Pacific Solar, including cooperation with Chinese solar system manufacturer.