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"As anti-renewables scare campaigns reach fever pitch in the lead-up to the
federal election, Australia has quietly passed a major solar milestone,
notching up 25GW of installed capacity – more PV per capita than anywhere else
in the world.
The stunning achievement, which was notched up over the course of 2021, was
marked on Monday by the Australian PV Institute, or APVI. By the beginning of
2022, Australia’s cumulative tally had in fact jumped to 26.9GW.
The milestone caps off a record-breaking year for solar in Australia in 2021,
when a total of 5.2GW of PV was installed over the course of the year.
Of this amount, a record of more than 3GW – 3.24GW – was installed on rooftops,
by households and businesses, despite a second round of Covid 19 chaos and
increasingly strong global solar market headwinds.
At the bigger end of the scale, utility-scale solar notched up its own new
record in December, when generation levels surpassed 1,000GWh in a month for
the first time to reach a total of 1,263GWh.
Small- and large-scale solar projects combined to meet 13.3 per cent of
Australia’s total electricity demand over the course of the year, according to
recent Climate Council analysis."
Via Future Crunch Feb 17, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews-measles-wolves-energy-down-under/
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
