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Carbon tax plan helped attract world’s largest solar maker to Australia

World’s largest solar maker opens office in Australia Radio Australia September 17, 2011  The world’s largest maker of solar panels says Australia’s carbon tax is one of the factors that has attracted it to the country.

The US-based First Solar opened its doors in Australia this month, planning to be a major supplier of solar panels for large-scale power projects.  The company says costs of panels are coming down quickly but government incentives will be necessary for another five years….. SNOWDON: If the forecasts are right, solar energy will deliver half the world’s electricity production within fifty years. Australia’s target is 20 per cent renewable energy by 2020, a policy that encouraged the world’s biggest solar panel maker to open a sales and engineering office in Sydney a week ago. And the carbon tax while not essential, helped….

September 17, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, solar | solar