The outrageous proposal by Energy Fiji Limited (EFL) to seek protection from “rooftop solar” is not only outrageous but ridiculous.
It goes against the global push for transitioning to a new future based on renewable energy technology, phasing out fossil fuels and reducing GHG emissions, to help save our planet from the huge impacts of climate change.
The absurd justification of only the wealthy being able to afford solar systems is a nonsense.
There are funds available via various climate financing windows for small island developing countries like Fiji to get grants to make this happen.
Australia claims to have the highest percentage of roof solar in the world and surely our big brother would be waiting for any opportunity to provide such targeted support.
What efforts has EFL made to access the huge pool of funds available?
It seems, as has been highlighted on several occasions, it is the lack of vision by EFL to wean itself of expensive fossil fuels that has gotten us to this situation.
Surely it ought to have been strengthening and upgrading its grid infrastructure to prepare for this inevitability.
Such startling proposal not just points to poor policy and planning on the part of EFL but is directly contradictory to the Government’s efforts through the ministries of climate change and environment, energy, and infrastructure, etc to deal with the current and future impacts of climate change as the number one security issue for Fiji and the region.
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