In the wake of the Federal Government’s 50,000 green jobs announcement, Conergy , a global leader in the manufacture and distribution of renewable energy systems, is reminding Australians that there are real green jobs in the solar industry that need the promised support of elected politicians.
Rodger Meads, Conergy’s Managing Director said that he did not believe green jobs need to be announced, because there are existing real, long term and meaningful jobs that only require the certainty promised by both major parties.
Mr Meads said that the solar industy needs the Renewable Energy Target legislation, which contains the ‘Solar Credits’ program from the ETS, to be freed, as soon as Parliament resumes on August 11th.
“Over the last eighteen months our industry has seen a means test imposed with no warning, a scrapping of this scheme altogether with only 6 hours notice, a scrapping of the regional solar program and a lot of promises about this Solar Credits program which have still failed to materialise,” Mr Meads said.
“A detailed survey we conducted with solar dealers and installers across the country makes it clear that this Government and the Opposition are pushing us towards real trouble which will amount to job losses and businesses closing. The general consensus is that we have one month to six weeks before this starts to unfold,” Mr Meads said.