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Fremantle Herald
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By Jenny D'Anger
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26/02/2009
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Fremantle's newest solar shop Australsun, at the corner of Parry and Quarry Streets, is looking forward to receiving complaints about its brightly lit store and displays.
"We'll light up like a christmas tree and hope people will complain," managing director Ross Young told the Herald.
He says he'll smile and point to a solar panel awning that shades the footpath, and to panels on the roof, and tell people that going green doesn't necessarily mean cutting back.
No Sacrifices
"People assume you have to make sacrifices," he says, "well you don't have to sit in a dark corner and eat cabbage."
Council staff recommended rejection of the solar panel awnings, saying technology appeared untried, but offered enthusiastic support for panels on the shop roof. However, at Wednesday's planning committee meeting Cr Jon Stratchan won unanimous support for the awnings too.
Mr Young says now is a great time to go solar with power costs set to substantially rise and the Barnett government promising to increase the tariff paid to those who put electricity back into the grid.