SA Greens Campaign to make Electricity Retailers pay for Green Energy
South Australian Greens MLC Mark Parnell has recently commenced a campaign to stop electricity retailers in South Australia from getting renewable energy from solar PV owners for free.
In February 2008, the SA Parliament passed laws to create a solar feed-in premium of 44c/kWh for excess power sold to the grid. Some retailers have chosen to replace what they were already paying solar pv owners(between 16-24c) with the 44c premium, rather than as an additional payment. As the feed-in tariff is being paid for by a small extra charge on all SA electricity consumers the retailers are not paying anything extra for the clean, green energy.
