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| Mon, 3rd Aug 2020 14:45:00 |
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What Other Countries Can Learn From Australia’s Roaring Rooftop Solar Market |
Policymakers looking to speed up renewable energy deployment have a best-practice case study to look to: Australia is rolling out renewables 10 times faster than the global average, offering lessons as to what factors can improve the uptake of clean energy.
In terms of overall capacity, Oceania still only accounts for a tiny share of global renewables. Its 40 gigawatts of renewables amounted to just 2 percent of clean energy worldwide in 2019, IRENA figures show. But it added 6.2 gigawatts of capacity last year, growing more than 18 percent. That compares to 6 percent growth in North America, 7 percent growth in Europe and 9 percent in Asia.
Australia’s modest population of 25 million means per-capita growth rates are even more extreme.
For the last five years or so, the rooftop PV market has been boosted by rising electricity costs, a trend that coincided almost perfectly with a sustained reduction in residential PV system prices.
The country benefits from lots of sunshine and high levels of homeownership and single-dwelling buildings. It also has a high per-capita gross domestic product, Miller said, with wealth spread fairly evenly across the population, making a rooftop PV system a viable option for a significant fraction of the population.
Another critical factor helping to boost solar uptake in Australia is the lack of red tape relating to installations, Miller said. “There’s very little in terms of council approvals, government approvals and the like [that are necessary]. It can be done by an electrician.”
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