Solar use in sydney soars

Beset by rising consumer energy prices, consumers in Sydney, Australia's most populous city, are looking to solar energy.

In 2010 the city introduced a solar bonus scheme, which was very popular in Sydney's more prosperous suburbs, with more than 14 percent of homes installing rooftop solar panels, compared with a New South Wales statewide average of about 3 percent.

Paul Myors is an energy efficiency specialist with Ausgrid, a state-owned electricity infrastructure company which owns, maintains and operates the electrical distribution networks to 1.6 million customers.

He said that the number of private dwellings with solar panels had increased from 2,000 18 months ago to 46,000 after the former New South Wales Labor government introduced a solar bonus rebate scheme.

Source: UPI.com