Households to power up to half Australia, zero emissions within reach: CSIRO

By Adam Morton
Updated December 7 2016 - 1:18am, first published December 6 2016 - 10:37pm
As many as one in five homes now have rooftop solar systems. Photo: Fairfax Media
As many as one in five homes now have rooftop solar systems. Photo: Fairfax Media

As the Coalition backs away from a pledge to consider a climate change policy that the energy industry says it needs, a new study is projecting a rapidly growing mass electricity generator for Australia in the decades ahead: the public.