But, and isn't there always a but !
Almost all Coles and Woolies are tenants in somebody else's buildings.
Rooftops are usually car parks.

"Recent polling from Greenpeace shows that nearly 70% of people think big businesses should set a target of 100% renewable energy, while 67% of people would prefer to work for a company that uses renewable energy".

Because most people are too polite to tell these pollsters to bugger off, or they feel threatened by climate loonies. And, it's easy for people to say what other people should do because they don't have to do anything themselves.

100% renewable energy? Rave on!

"Climate change is impacting Australian families now."

No. Climate change is not impacting Australian families. The high cost of electricity, brought about climate nutters and rent-seekers, is what is impacting Australian families, who made their feelings known at the last climate change election, after Green/Labor threatened to make things even harder for them.

'Australian companies' - most of them now multinationals - will do what is best for them; and, they will whack Australian families even harder to pay for it.

Bazz,
Where there's rooftop parking, it's much much much better to have it under the shade of solar panels than in full sun.

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ttbn,
Do you seriously think the severity of the bushfires is unrelated to climate change? Or that the bushfires aren't impacting on Australian families?

The high cost of electricity is indeed impacting on Australian families, but more solar power can bring it down.

Sounds like a great deal/huge payday for the solar panel industry and installers!

However, like all of these vested interest diatribes, ignores the mountains of toxic waste this industry creates, and where it is simply dumped? To eventually wind up in our oceans/food?

Ignores other carbon-free alternatives that are even more sustainable and what's more available 24/7and not just when the sun shines or the wind blows.

Doesn't change the transport industry dynamics and our absurd reliance on imported carbon-based fossil fuels.

doesn't lessen or limit our dependance o the export of coal oil or gas to prop up our economy. Doesn't make desal affordable or make irrigation (essential) more affordable.

Doesn't stop the exodus from the land by the dairy industry, just pads the wallets of installers for a time!

If I could afford it I'd get completely off the grid! Or agree to officially sanctioned murder, to get off of this parisite's paradise, energy money-go-round.

Cover every roof with panels and add in batteries that triple outlay cost and guess what?

We'd still need dispatchable power to keep the trains and trams running the factories churning the irrigation pumps sucking furiously, the desalination projects all but melting down with overload. And peak demand that hugely exceeds capacity as every air conditioner in the land is turned on and operates at maximum day and night! And in places like Bunnings. Woolworths, and Coles! As the airconditioning and freezer capacities are strained to their limits.

And when they're not? Cause huge problems for the grid! TBC.
Alan B.

Only someone with no math could possibly believe alternate energy could possibly replace even 70% of our current power requirements.

Until these clowns endorse gas, clean coal & nuclear power generation, we know they are merely useful idiots, doing the work of vested interests in the wind & solar industries.

Cont. the mendacious and diabolically disingenuous solar panel industry keeps insisting that renewables are cheaper than coal!

And not necessarily so. If one covers ten or twenty square miles with solar voltaic panels one can get day time power to below that of gas, @5cents PHWH. And needs gas backup turbines or somesuch to kick in when the sun goes down or demand exceeds capacity. ROM coal? 3 cents, PKWH?

And while the power from huge scale of economy projects may prove the solar installer's claims? They're are not applicable to joe average. Or anyone living below the poverty line, around 40% of us?

Solar panels start to degrade in around 25 years as they become less and less efficient! Not hail proof nor able to withstand cyclonic winds!

Just add to insurance premiums the first foreseeable consequence!

Vested interest will always argue their case through a prism and with vested interest blinkers on?

We've more solar panels on more roof now than at any time and the take-up, even with generous subsidies may have plateaued, hence this and other similar, vested interest articles? even as we transition through the worst drought in living memory. And Australia/flora and fauna burns!

True environmentalists do not selectively present their alternatives but are open to all sane/saner sustainable alternatives.

Vested interests, on the other hand, are terrified of the other more sustainable, carbon-free or carbon-neutral alternatives that beat their preferred model hands down as cost-effective and affordable, sustainable, alternative energy paradigms! TBC.
Alan B.