ATA Submission to NSW Solar Feed-in Tariff
The Alternative Technology Association (ATA) welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the New South Wales Solar Feed-in Tariff proposal.
ATA supports the adoption of feed-in tariffs as an incentive mechanism for all scales of renewable energy. Recent studies of incentive mechanisms in Europe have shown that feed-in tariffs result in lower-cost deployment of renewable energy than mandated targets schemes such as Australia’s Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET).
However, accepting the Federal Government’s commitment to an expanded national renewable energy target scheme, ATA believes that feed-in tariffs still have an important role to play in providing an incentive for renewable energy technologies which currently either don’t benefit significantly from MRET, or face significant barriers to deployment – or both.
Click here to see ATA’s submission.
