Australian Residential Solar Feed-in Tariffs: Industry Stimulus or Regressive Form of Taxation?
By T. Nelson, Paul Simshauser, Simon Kelley. 2011
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Feed-in Tariffs (FiT) for residential photovoltaic solar technologies are available in most Australian jurisdictions. Financial incentives under FiT are in addition to those provided by the Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme which forms part of the national 20% Renewable Energy Target. Little attention has been paid to the welfare impacts of FiT on retail electricity prices and social policy objectives. Our analysis indicates that current FiT are a regressive form of taxation. By providing estimates of household impact by income groupings, we conclude that wealthier households are beneficiaries and the effective taxation rate for low income households is three times higher than that paid by the wealthiest households.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Pollution
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- Retrospective modeling of the merit-order effect on wholesale electricity prices from distributed photovoltaic generation in the Australian National Electricity Market (2013, background): “Because these costs are likely to impact disproportionately on low income groups, some have argued that feed-in tariffs may constitute an unwelcome form of regressive taxation (Nelson et al., 2011).”
- Residential solar PV policy: An analysis of impacts, successes and failures in the Australian case (2016, background): “Further, as home ownership is a key criteria for the installation of solar panels, electricity customers who do not own their own home cannot take advantage of either the REC or FiT subsidies (Nelson et al, 2011).”
- The burden of Germany’s energy transition (2015, methodology): “While the average hours of bright sunshine ranges between 2,300 and 3,300 in Australia, it lies between 1,300 and 1,900 in Germany (Frondel et al., 2014:4).”