Mr. Michael Manley:

There is no grant scheme for it. No more than anything else, it is a commercial enterprise. What is being sought is what is referred to as a tariff, that is, a price. Opposed to the commercial price of electricity, some people will need a support price. We will see more in that regard after the outcome of the next renewable energy auction scheme when questions about how solar feeds into this situation, how much of it will be commercial and utility scale and how much will be small scale have become evident. When I spoke earlier, I referred primarily to wind power in the context of microgeneration and community generation. Solar will have a role in that regard as well.

Other than planning regulations, there is nothing stopping anyone from putting panels on roofs. If someone wants to have the capacity to sell that power into the market, though, a major market redesign will be required because our market is not configured to facilitate that currently.