UP TO 1800 jobs could disappear from Victorian solar power businesses if the 
Baillieu government allows a household subsidy scheme to lapse when it reaches 
its proposed limit in coming months, according to an industry analysis.


Under laws introduced by the previous Labor government, electricity companies
  pay households a premium rate of 60¢ per kilowatt hour for energy generated on 
rooftops and fed into the  power grid.


The feed-in-tariff scheme was capped with a review triggered once 100 
megawatts of capacity was installed. That threshold is about to be
reached.



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