In September the company Solar Systems went into administration making 100 workers redundant. This has put the construction of the first large scale solar power plant (concentrated photovoltaics) in Australia in doubt. It was to have been a $420 million project that would have created 1000 jobs in construction and powered 45,000 homes.
State and federal governments had already promised $125 million to the project, but so far released less than $3 million of that money. We are asking that the federal government immediately intervenes to guarantee:
(i) that the Solar Systems factory in Abbotsford remains open,
(ii) that the redundant workers are reinstated and,
(iii) that a large scale solar power plant is built in Mildura.
It is hard to believe our state and federal governments when they say they care about creating clean energy jobs if they can’t even save the ones we already have.
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