Adelaide Advertiser
Wednesday 2/7/2008 Page: 55
GERMAN solar cell integrator Phoenix Solar celebrated the opening of its Australian subsidiary in Adelaide yesterday, in step with new feed-in tariff legislation introduced by the State Government. The firm's Australian managing director, Christian Bindel, said Phoenix would be a wholesale supplier of photovoltaic cells to installers for grid-connected systems for homes, schools and civic projects. SA is the first state to introduce a feed-in tariff of 44c, twice the retail electricity rate, for every kilowatt hour of electricity which is fed back into the grid from solar PV systems.
Other states are drafting similar laws. "I think there'll be an increase in demand for 1kW systems," he said, as a result of the mean-tested legislation introduced by the Rudd Government. SA's status of having 40 per cent of Australia's grid connected PV system but just 8 per cent of the country's population was one reason to base its business in Adelaide, Mr Bindel said.
The company, which has developed large scale PV power plants in Germany and Spain, is also involved in the Federal Government's $3 million solar technology demonstration facility in Alice Springs. Phoenix chief operating officer Murray Cameron said the Adelaide headquarted subsidiary was the company's fifth opened outside Germany. "This form of technology is becoming increasingly more competitive and more production volumes are coming on line around the world," Dr Cameron said.
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