One in 5 of all Australian households now using solar

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http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/one-in-5-of-all-australian-households-now-using-solar-32056

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04. December 2014

[font size=4]One out of every five Australian households are turning to solar energy for their electricity or hot water, new data has revealed.[/font]

[font size=3]The Australian Bureau of Statistic reports that its latest figures show that 19 per cent of households nationally now currently either rooftop solar panels or solar powered hot water systems – up from about 5 per cent back in 2011, when the ABS first started publishing statistics on solar.

Of the 19 per cent, 14 per cent of these households have rooftop PV, according to the ABS’s Karen Connaughton.

“Add in solar hot water heating and we’re up to 19 per cent, so one in five households are now using some form of solar power.”

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[Warpy]

1. After the last few summers there, one expects them to add to the power

so they can eventually install some form of AC. I have friends there who spent weeks collapsed under a fan with ambient temperatures between 110-125.

Solar makes a great deal of sense there as it does in this part of the country. The problem is getting utility companies to upgrade infrastructure enough to accept it into the grid.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Getting the electric companies set up to accept feed back from solar but we have a large portion

of our citizens who turn their heads and deny it is good. it is oblivious GOP fights this.