'Huge surge': How we're beating skyrocketing energy prices

By Peter Hannam
Updated April 27 2017 - 10:24pm, first published 4:34pm
AFR Sydney Story by, Ben Potter. Renewable Power Co installation of solar at the newly built ICC, Darling Harbour. Photo shows, Allegra Spender and Andy Cavanagh-Downs, chair and founder-director of Sydney Renewable Power Co, on roof of theICC at Darling Harbor with the 520kW rooftop, solar PV Array they have just managed to finance through an unlisted public raising. Photo by, Peter Rae Friday 21 April 2017. Photo: Peter Rae
AFR Sydney Story by, Ben Potter. Renewable Power Co installation of solar at the newly built ICC, Darling Harbour. Photo shows, Allegra Spender and Andy Cavanagh-Downs, chair and founder-director of Sydney Renewable Power Co, on roof of theICC at Darling Harbor with the 520kW rooftop, solar PV Array they have just managed to finance through an unlisted public raising. Photo by, Peter Rae Friday 21 April 2017. Photo: Peter Rae

Fears about rising energy prices have driven consumers and businesses to install solar panels at the fastest rate in at least a decade, lifting total national capacity to the equivalent of powering a city the size of Melbourne.

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