With all this noise about electricity bills rising rapidly, it makes me wonder why the Australian Government is taking the solar rebate away 1 year earlier than was intended. The rebate will now be phased out July 2011.
The solar rebate was announced in December 2008 to help ease the cost of rising bills and the cost for households to install solar energy systems dropped dramatically.
Only last week I watched as middle Australia and pensioners alike complained on current affairs shows about the how their electricity bills have doubled or tripled.
Surely there is a simple and cost effective solution?
Probably the main reason why we need the rebate is to help planet earth with global warming and climate change. Those these two terms are often used as the same thing, there do mean different things. Global warming refers to gradual and slow increase of the earth average surface temperature often as a result of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Climate change on the other hand is a much more broad term which not only involves temperature but also average rainfall patterns.
Solar panel installation in homes and businesses will help not one but both of the above problems.
The above is a huge problem not only for citizens but also the Government. The rising costs and pressure put on them about the Emissions Trading Scheme is surely enough for them to invest in renewable energy.
The way that greenhouse gasses are produced is not going to stop any time soon. Burning fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas, farming and logging are not going anywhere. If anything, Australian residence and especially businesses should start to have compulsory solar energy systems installed to offset the damage that is being done.
Probably the least important yet still substantial argument for extending the solar rebate scheme is the employment that is created by such a program. Hundreds of businesses around Australia would have hired extra staff and bought extra batts to take advantage of rewarding grant.
The solar rebate gives people an incentive to invest in these environmentally friendly energy sources to not only help themselves, but also the Government and not to mention the planet.