The
decision
will
leave
projects
that
hoped
to
bid
for
cash
not
yet
allocated
under
Australia's
Solar
Flagships
scheme
competing
with
other
technologies.
Greg
Bourne,
chairman
of
the
Australian
Renewable
Energy
Agency
(Arena),
says
all
of
the
federal
government’s
existing
funding
programmes
–
including
the
Solar
Flagships
scheme
to
back
large-scale
solar
–
have
been
streamed
into
the
new
agency’s
funding
pool.
“The
money
that’s
come
in
from
the
legacy
programmes,
including
Solar
Flagships,
to
Arena
has
gone
into
a
consolidated
pool.
“We
won’t
necessarily
continue
Solar
Flagships
as
such
going
forward,
but
that…