Stephanie Gray, @SolarCitizens on charging PV owners for energy generation - or a levy for end-of-life landfill processing @UniversitySA

There are moves by some energy retailers through the Australian Energy Regulator (or equivalent authority) to allow south eastern Australian rooftop photovoltaic panel owners to be charged for generating energy at peak times. We discuss this and a claim by a University of South Australia academic on Tuesday 21 March 2023 that there may need to be a levy to address the cost of recycling an estimated 80 million panels, or approximately 100,000 tonnes, of panels going into landfill at the end of their effective lives.