Solar Photovoltaic Panel Adoption in Australia

Date

Time

12:00pm - 1:00pm AEST

Venue

via Zoom

Speakers

Rohan Best
Rohan Best is a senior lecturer at the Department of Economics at Macquarie University. His PhD was from the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. His research focuses on energy equity, energy economics, and energy policy. Rohan’s previous research has been discussed in the Sydney Morning Herald and SBS News and published in journals such as the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Applied Energy, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, the Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics, The Energy Journal, and Environmental and Resource Economics.

Madeline Taylor
Associate Professor Madeline Taylor is Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Fellow, Co-Lead of the Energy, Communities, and Market Regulation Stream of the Transforming Energy Markets Research Centre, Honorary Associate at the Sydney Environment Institute and Member of the Sydney Institute of Agriculture. Her research focuses on the evolving regulation and policy of energy transitions, examined through comparative and socio-legal lenses. She has published extensively on topics such as energy governance and the distribution of rights and benefits among the state, energy sector, and agriculture. She holds three federally funded projects focusing on agrivoltaics and transmission regulation working with several industry partners across the energy and agricultural sectors. She has advised numerous government, industry stakeholders and NGOs on issues relating to the energy transition, energy regulation and policy, and has provided expert submissions and reports to the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA), the NSW Government, World Bank, NOPSEMA, and the Independent Planning Commission.

Description

Solar Photovoltaic Adoption: Homes and Farms

This seminar considers solar photovoltaic panel adoption in Australia across the residential, non-residential and rural sectors of the economy. As the pace towards net-zero increases, policy-makers must carefully consider the the determinants of adoption.

Rohan Best will discuss household solar panel adoption including the factors driving this adoption and implications for policy design. One key element will be the relationship between household income and solar panel adoption. Rohan will also briefly discuss solar adoption in the non-residential sector.

Madeline Taylor will focus on solar panel adoption for the agricultural sector with discussion of agrivoltaics.

Cost is FREE for members and non-members