Adelaide Advertiser
Monday 22/12/2008 Page: 22
RESIDENTS and small business owners will be able to fit solar panels on their roofs without getting council planning approval from January 1. Urban Development Minister Paul Holloway said the Government had reduced the amount of red tape involved in fitting an array of solar panels weighing less than 100kg. The Government will soon begin consulting industry bodies to establish a process to accredit tradespeople qualified to fit the panels.
"Exempting solar panels from the approvals process will remove a costly disincentive in both time and money to installing this energy-saving technology," Mr Holloway said. "...the Rann Labor Government hopes to further encourage this already national leading rate of household installations." He said SA had about 40 per cent of the nation's grid-connected solar panels and five times the number of household installations of the next highest state.
"South Australia's feed-in scheme leads the nation on tackling climate change by paying people to double the tariff for excess solar energy they feed back into the electricity grid," he said. "Householders and small energy consumers using solar panels are currently being rewarded with a guaranteed credit of 44c for every unit of electricity or kW hour, fed back into the grid."
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