Getting the facts right on Solar | SNEAK PREVIEW 25 October

CPD challenges the view that solar consumers are cross-subsidised. An upcoming report reveals households installing air-conditioning increase everyone else’s bills by $75 a year. Adding rooftop solar to the network reduces bills faced by other households due to air-conditioning. The Centre for Policy Development, along with with the APVA (Australian PV Institute), quantify the real impacts of rooftop solar on other households’ bills. This shows there are more equitable and effective ways to share network costs – rather than charging solar consumers extra levies, as suggested by the Australian Electricity Market Commission. See today’s media alert.