SOLAR POWER IN AUSTRALIA

TYPE OF ENERGY (DESCRIPTION, SOURCE) – EXAMPLES OF HOW THE ENERGY IS USED (PLACES,
PURPOSES) – ADVANTAGES – DISADVANTAGES – FUTURE OF THIS FORM OF ENERGY

WHAT IS AN UNUSUAL SOURCE OF ENERGY? HOW DOES THIS ENERGY SOURCE WORK?
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING THIS ENERGY SOURCE?

INTRODUCTION –> HISTORY -> POTENTIAL -> INCENTIVES -> NEWS -> CONCLUSION

Vocabulary:
Triggered, abandoned, released, emerged, experts, contaminated, exposed, reacted,
controversy, compensate, abundant, enthusiasm, incentives, layers, pursuing, disadvantage,
principle, utilize, renewable, shortages, implications, subsequently, incredible, encountered,
migrations, immense, declined, absorbed, linked, assume, anticipate, domestic,
consequences, contradiction, displaying, agriculture, isolated, period, reject, transition,
epiphany, erosion, legacy, marginal, susceptible to, took its toll, grant, found, enable, objective,
perspective, regain, highlight, federal, portion, undertake,

Stressing two-word compounds

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Buzzword
The blogosphere brick-and-mortar climate change go green

Language Function
(emphasizing Important Information)
Don’t forget that… Let me stress that… I want to emphasize that… I would like to stress
that… I would like to point out that… You need to remember that… It is important to
note/remember that…
(conceding a point)
Good point. Fair enough. I’ll give you that.
(expressing approval and disapproval)

Approval: It’s OK that… I think it’s fine to… I strongly approve of… It’s OK to…
Disapproval: It’s wrong to… It’s not right that… I strongly disapprove of… It’s not right to…
(expressing surprise)
Surprised: No kidding. That’s really surprising. I’m really surprised to hear that. I find that
quite surprising.
Very surprised: Wow! That’s amazing/astonishing/incredible! Imagine that!
(expressing hopes)

I really hope that… I’m hoping that… It would be nice/great/wonderful/ideal if…

(using fillers)
Informal: …umm… …oh, you know… …hang on… …it’s on the tip of my tongue…
Formal: …let me think… …just a moment… …how should I put it… …oh, what’s the
word…
(Evaluating numbers and statistics)

Is this a large or a small number? Is it large or smaller than I expected? What percentage
of the total is it? Does this number seem accurate?
(expressing a lack of knowledge)

I had no idea that… I never knew that… I didn’t realize that… I wasn’t aware that…

Good evening everyone. Today’s topic is SOLAR POWER IN AUSTRALIA

First we’re going to see about the history of this industry in Australia and how it have been
growing since 2009.
Solar Power in Australia is a growing industry. It started in 2001, when the government
promoted the renewable energy. But it was not until 2009 when the solar energy increased
dramatically thanks to a CREDIT PROGRAM. It triggered that… The installed PV capacity has
increased 10-fold between 2009 and 2011, and Quadrupled between 2011 and 2016. PV
contributed to 2.4% of the country’s electrical energy for 2014-2015.

Here, as you can see, there are some examples of

HISTORY
Solar power in Australia is a growing industry. As of April 2017, Australia had over
5,920 megawatts (MW) of installed photovoltaic (PV) solar power.

PV contributed to 2.4% of the country's electrical energy for 2014-2015.

The installed PV capacity in Australia has increased 10-fold between 2009 and 2011, and
quadrupled between 2011 and 2016.
In South Australia, a solar feed-in tariff was introduced for households and an educational
program that involved installing PVs on the roofs of major public buildings such as the Adelaide
Airport, State Parliament, Museum, Art Gallery and several hundred public schools.

* The Bundaberg Christian College is expecting their electricity bill to drop by up to

$100,000 a year thanks to the new system, which includes more than 700 solar panels
and a huge bank of batteries.
POTENTIAL

South Australia has the highest per capita take up of household solar power in Australia.
Australia's insolation greatly exceeds the average values in Europe, Russia, and most of North
America.

With an installed photovoltaic capacity of 5,440 megawatts by the end of 2016, Australia ranks
among the world's top ten solar countries.
INCENTIVES
rebates
The Australian Government provided a rebate program that offered up to A$8,000 rebates for
installing solar panels on homes and community use buildings (other than schools).

Schools were eligible to apply for grants of up to A$50,000

for the program ended 21 November 2012. A total of 2,870 schools have installed solar panels
feed-in tariffs
A number of states have set up schemes to encourage the uptake of solar PV power
generation involving households installing solar panels and selling excess electricity to
electricity retailers to put into the electricity grid, widely called "feed-in".
mandatory renewable energy target
In 2001, the Australian government introduced a mandatory renewable energy target (MRET)
designed to ensure renewable energy obtains a 20% share of electricity supply in Australia by
2020.
subsiding funding
The Solar Flagships program sets aside $1.6 billion for solar power over a period of six years.
This subsidy would need additional funding from the plant builders and/or operators.

This will allow the storage of about 100 MW of energy from the sun.

PROJECTS

Six plants in Queensland, five plants in New South Wales and one plant in Western Australia are
slated for funding
Australian Capital Territory
A new 20 MWp solar power plant has been built on 50 hectares of land in Royalla, a rural
part of the Australian Capital Territory south of Canberra. It is powered by 83,000 solar
panels, and can power for 4,400 homes.

Northern Territory
There are 30 solar concentrator dishes. The solar concentrator dish power stations together
generate 720 kW.

South Australia
The largest rooftop solar PV array in South Australia is located at Adelaide airport, with a
generating capacity of 1.17 MW. Sundrop Farms concentrating solar power plant has a
generating capacity of 40 MW, and is the first of its kind to be commissioned in the state.

Victoria
The Victorian power station would have generated electricity directly from the sun

Renewable Energy Master Plan 2030

The Council of Sydney is attempting to make the city run 100% on renewable energy by 2030.

BREAKING NEWS

Australia contará con la mayor planta de almacenamiento de energía solar del mundo
Australian solar’s grightest day

Planned big solar farms