Australia has an estimated 300 MW of working photovoltaic (PV)
power (September 2010), supplying about 0.1 to 0.2% of total
electric power generation (by July 2009) irrespective of the
warm and sunlit environment that makes it best for use. Feed-in
tariffs and compulsory alternative power targets are intended to
facilitate Australian alternative energy commercialization.
Australian arid weather and latitude the mixture of both present
it an excellent probability of solar power yield. Most of the
Australia enjoys more than four kWh in every square meter daily
of insolation in winter months, while districts in the north
exceeding six kWh per day. Australian insolation actually
exceeds the standard figures in Europe, Russia and much of
United States. The same values are seen in desert parts of
southern and northern Africa, south-west parts of USA and
adjacent part of Mexico, and countries on the Pacific shoreline
of South America. But, the areas of Australia having greatest
insolation are in the interior areas,