There were 144 accredited solar installers in Tasmania in 2013 … and with their support staff and admin etc. we estimate that at the very least 450 jobs make up the industry.
Anecdotal evidence shows that the number of people in the industry could have potentially have been a lot higher if the industry was still on the same footing.
Many companies were looking to expand and employ more people but instead have not employed those and have put off people to cut the cloth in their businesses.
The installations of grandfathered units stopped at the end of August 2014. Now that these installations are complete we face the hard reality of little or no work for installers going forward.
With solar companies losing over 90% of their business due to the reduction in the feed-in tariff may cause more than 400 of these jobs to have to go.
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John Thirgood, www.facebook/saveoursolartas
