The ACT Parliament has passed legislation providing feed-in tariff support for medium-scale solar facilities and will later this year introduce further legislation to enable backing for larger solar plants.
Up to 20% of the ACT's waste streams could best be managed by recovering energy from them, according to research for a draft strategy released today by the Territory Government.
The ACT will follow South Australia and the Northern Territory in banning lightweight plastic shopping bags from July next year, the territory's environment minister, Simon Corbell, announced today.
The ACT Government will expand its feed-in tariff regime to support solar power systems of all sizes – with support for large-scale systems determined through an auction process – and will also cap the total amount of solar power that the scheme can support.