Victorian govt fails to support Milldura’s solar plant
Tennis funded, solar power left hanging Green Left Ben Courtice, Melbourne23 January 2010“…..Save Solar Systems spokesperson Chris Breen said: “The Mildura solar power plant would provide jobs and real climate action, for not much more than the $363 million being directly given to upgrade the Tennis Centre. What matters more, a game of tennis or the planet it is played on? If Brumby can find money for a tennis upgrade why not the Mildura solar power plant?”…..A statement from Save Solar Systems said: “Kevin Rudd posed on climate change in Copenhagen, but at home Australia’s leading solar PV company Solar Systems has collapsed and he has also had nothing to say or offer.”
The government’s promised $50 million funding has not been made available yet to save the project………..
The project would have created 1000 renewable energy jobs in construction and powered 45,000 homes. Solar Systems employed 150 workers, but already 100 have been made redundant.
Elsewhere in the renewable energy industry, wind farm construction is still stalled. Industry investors blame the low price of Renewable Energy Certificates, which has gone from $50 down to about $30 due to the proliferation of home solar hot water heaters taking up certificates.
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