Australia solar shines as rising power bills trigger energy shift
Sydney
AUSTRALIA, one of the world's biggest users of rooftop solar panels, has probably added the most new capacity on record last year as electricity users sought to ease escalating power bills.
A preliminary estimate by Australia's Clean Energy Regulator of 1.05 gigawatts installed last year would be a record for the country, the government body said on Friday. While subsidies and generous feed-in tariffs helped boost growth earlier this decade, last year's gains were driven by users seeking to sidestep a surge in the cost of…
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