Investing in Green Tech

Posted by tomachi on December 13th, 2009 filed in Economy, Environment, Politics

I personally love the idea of investing in Green Tech. The government needs to setup a “clearing house” website where all the available options are indexed and catalogued.

For example, I understand in NZ the government has provided:

• interest free loans for solar power?
• insulation support?
• no road user charges for 4 years for electrics (heck make is 20 years!)?

I reckon 5 to 8 years would have been better to allow companies to justify some serious expenditure on electrics and hyrbid.

Also, where is the support for Bio Fuels?

I would like to see:

• No parking fees for hybrids / electrics / and ultra-low emissions vehicles
• Link bus frequency dropped from 10mins to 9mins peak hour, and from 20mins down to 18mins off peak.
• Force power retailers by law to pay house-hold generators the full retail price for power reversal (not the wholesale rate).
• A weekly lottery – each week someone gets a full-on 5kw solar panel and grid-synchroniser setup for their home: so they can sell power back to the grid.