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Feed-in tariffs explained
Feed-in tariffs is the amount you are paid for the electricity you generate and do not consume.
This mechanism allows owners of grid- connect photovoltaic solar power systems to be paid more than the retail price for any excess electricity production that is fed back into the grid.
Feed-in tariffs have been a great success in Germany, and many countries around the world (click here for examples).
New net feed-in tariff for Western Australia
A new, net feed-in tariff scheme would be paid on excess energy exported to the electricity grid from household renewable energy systems, and is expected to be implemented.
A net feed-in tariff will allow the scheme to better align with feed-in tariff schemes in other jurisdictions across Australia and provide a more nationally consistent incentive to the industry.
The net feed-in tariff will also overcome technical metering issues associated with a gross feed-in tariff scheme, which would have seen system owners having to change existing meters. Additional metering costs would have eroded some of the benefit delivered by the scheme.
Owners of systems installed since the 2008 State Government election will be eligible to apply for the new net feed-in tariff scheme.
Text from the Sustainable Energy Development Office http://www.sedo.wa.gov.au
Disscussion paper of the feed-in tariff Download
Feed-in tariff schemes
State
| Status
| Maximum
size
| Rate / kW
| Validity
| Gross/Net
| WA
| Suspended in August 2011
| 5 kW
| 20c
| 10 yrs
| Net
| ACT
| Started in March 2009
| up to
200 kW
| 30.16 c
| 20 yrs
| Gross
| NSW
| To be introduced in January 2010 | 10 kW | 20 c
| 20 yrs | Net | NT
| NA
| -
| -
| -
| -
| QLD
| Started in July 2008 | 10 kW | 44 c
| 20 yrs | Net | SA
| Started in July 2008 | 10 kW | 44 c
| 20 yrs | Net | TAS
| NA
| TBC
| 20 c
| TBC | Net | | VIC | Start in 2009 | 3.2 kW | 60 c | 15yrs | Net |
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