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SwitchedOn Podcast: Why the jobless are also turning to solar PV

November 20, 2024 by Anne Delaney Leave a Comment

With around a third of our homes now sporting a solar array, Australia leads the world by far in solar installations.

Recent research has looked at what makes people install solar and found some very surprising factors. Postcodes with higher rates of unemployed have higher rates of rooftop solar, for instance, and the more solar panels you see in your neighbourhood, the more likely you are to install them yourself.

Kaveh Khalilpour is one of the report’s researchers and an Associate Professor in Engineering at the University of Technology in Sydney.

SwitchedOn Australia · Being unemployed means you’re more likely to have solar panels on your roof

 

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Anne Delaney
Anne Delaney

Anne Delaney is the host of the SwitchedOn podcast and our Electrification Editor, She has had a successful career in journalism (the ABC and SBS), as a documentary film maker, and as an artist and sculptor.

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About Anne Delaney

Anne Delaney is the host of the SwitchedOn podcast and our Electrification Editor, She has had a successful career in journalism (the ABC and SBS), as a documentary film maker, and as an artist and sculptor.

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