2016-08-30
Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) — My question is directed to the Deputy Leader of the Government as the minister representing the minister representing the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change. Minister, due to your government's failure to legislate the decision-making criteria under the Electricity Industry Act 2000 as it relates to payments to solar panel-owning homes and businesses and the electricity that they feed back into the grid, and due to the fact that the decision on next year's terms is due imminently, is this going to be the third year in a row in which under your government solar homes and businesses experience a cut to the payments made for the excess solar electricity that they feed into the grid?
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Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) — Minister, what do you say to the approximately 80 000 homes and businesses that are currently on a 25 cent or one-for-one feed-in tariff and that will be experiencing an increase in their power bills over the coming 12 months in the hundreds of dollars quite likely as a result of your government's failure to act?
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