Australia is blessed with amazing solar resources, we've got one of the highest rooftop solar panel install rates anywhere in the world per capita, most of the minerals required are in our dirt and we are one of the leading R&D centres for solar panel technology. The only thing missing is making the damn panels ourselves. That might change with the federal government's $1b investment in the Solar Sunshot program. ARENA will investigate "the entire supply chain from ingots and wafers to cells, module assembly, and related components, including solar glass, inverters, advanced deployment technology and solar innovation", with the aim of manufacturing solar panels locally - plus a little pork barrelling for the Hunter Region, "where the Prime Minister made the announcement at the site of the former coal-fired Liddell Power Station". Good to see a serious effort put in to do more manufacturing in Australia. We can't sell each other houses or rocks to China forever.
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