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Wind Subsidies To Be Cut In Australia

August 4, 2015

By Paul Homewood 

 

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From PEI:

 

Another blow has been dealt to the wind power industry in Australia with the news that a Senate committee has advocated new limits to the subsidisation of the technology.
The committee says energy subsidies for new wind farms should be limited to five years from more than 20 as it states that wind turbine technology was well developed and a “mature” industry. It also wants the issue of renewable energy certificates restricted to projects in states that adopt federal regulations on infrasound and low frequency noise.

The call for time limits on subsidies and federal noise oversight is another big setback for wind power in the country, already reeling from a federal government directive to the $10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation that it stop lending to wind projects.
The final report of the Senate investigation into wind farms and their possible health effects will be tabled in parliament on Monday.

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8 Comments
  1. A C Osborn permalink
    August 4, 2015 10:04 am

    I like the part about meeting infrasound limits, that is something they have been getting away with for years.

  2. Phillip Bratby permalink
    August 4, 2015 10:55 am

    The whole issue of noise has been swept under the carpet for years, in all countries.

    • Joe Public permalink
      August 4, 2015 12:14 pm

      Maybe the authorities have turned a deaf ear to it.

      • AndyG55 permalink
        August 5, 2015 5:53 am

        Pardon ?

  3. rhymeafterrhyme permalink
    August 4, 2015 2:13 pm

    A subsidy here,
    Another subsidy there,
    Those darn subsidies
    Are just everywhere;
    They help increase the charges
    The poor consumers pay,
    Now the naughty old government
    Is taking them away!

    http://rhymeafterrhyme.net/enrichment-through-environmental-stealth/

  4. AndyG55 permalink
    August 4, 2015 9:46 pm

    Peak Renewables will be reached the day subsidies and mandated feed-in are removed.

    Then .. renewables die a natural death.

  5. Val Martin permalink
    August 5, 2015 5:52 pm

    Wind turbines are net consumers of electric power over one year.

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