The Office of the Tasmanian Economic Regulator has released its “Final Report” into Solar Feed-In rates and Solar P.V. Owners and prospective owners will still continue to be ripped off Says John Thirgood of Save Our Solar Tas . Org

John compares the situation to The Big Supermarkets verses the small formers, where just like them we P.V. owners are large in number yet are at the mercy of the all powerful supply Chain and associated Government mechanisms whom clearly don’t, or do wish to understand that the current simplistic costing of network charges approach is grossly unfair to grid connect solar owners.

Brian Green asked the Regulator to report back and deliver outcomes based primarily on a neutral outcome with his request that “There be no subsidy or cross subsidy between customers of customer classes” Our data proves this to see a F.I.T. of some 21.045 cent F.I.T. as a mathematically neutral rate that achieves this.

However Thee regulator has merely but importantly allowed us line loss in transmission savings in the outcome of an 8.282 cents F.I.T. rate.

This is important as it validates that such savings are owned by the us and should not be kept by Transend.

Therefore the costs avoided difference of some 12.763 per kw hr are surely also owned by us too!

The conclusion is a simple fix, still avoided. The dreaded effect on the increased network charges if balances fairly per kw hr. We see merely would add a tiny some .0013 cents increase per kw hr across the board, based on 2011/12 Aurora financials.

So if P.V. solar was encouraged instead, then increased penetration by a massive tenfold this would see some 165,000 systems against the 2011/12 data, whilst equitably only adding just one cent per kw to power prices.

But in doing so Tasmania could see the result of jobs, carbon abatement by these kw’s exported to mainland instead. Savings for solar owners in cost of living and all at no expense to Government.

Plus another big one the avoided tens of millions cost of importing power from the mainland by Hydro as demonstrated for the whole month of April 2008 when the dams ran dry.

This also compares much better than the purchase back of the Bell Bay white elephant from Babcock & Brown by Aurora then re-sold to Hydro recently for some $230 million. Funds that could have been use far better by our Government.

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John Thirgood
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