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"Payments to farmers for hosting renewable energy infrastructure will hit a
total of $1 billion by 2030, and could reach up to $10 billion by 2050,
indicating just how valuable wind and solar farms will be to sustaining farming
operations in Australia.
Farmers in Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) will reap the bulk of the
windfalls over time, with payments rocketing to the multiple billions to
landholders in those two states alone by 2050, according to the latest report
from Farmers for Climate Action and the Clean Energy Council.
The 2030 total for landholder payments – the leases paid to landowners for
putting a wind or solar farm on their property – is estimated to be between
$900,000 and $1.1 billion.
Another $213 million will be paid to regional communities through community
benefits funds and other shared benefits offered by developers.
The prediction for 2050 – as the country continues through its green energy
transition – could result in landowner payments of up to nearly $10 billion,
with a ten-fold increase in community payments and benefits totalling nearly $2
billion."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
