Saturday, October 20, 2018

Flying too close to the sun

The other day we received a brochure from the Labor Party's candidate for my electorate in next month's state election, promoting the Victorian government's solar homes package. I for one am not confident that the scheme will be successful.


They are offering to subsidise the cost of purchasing a domestic solar power system.
A cursory reading of the scheme's information website seems to indicate that it will be tightly regulated, and only approved suppliers will be permitted to participate in the scheme, and the installation work must be done by suitably qualified tradespeople.

Even so, it is more than likely than unethical operators will find a way to circumvent the regulations, and exploit both the government and customers. Just last night we received an unsolicited telemarketing phone call from a solar energy company, offering to sell us a solar power system. You (possibly) read it here first.

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