Trying to help young footballers deal with the tragic suicides of seven of their peers convinced a Victorian man he had to come up with a plan to change attitudes and lives. That plan is now available in the workplace. By Liz Swanton

Dave Burt is the type of man who likes to turn his words into action, and if that helps others, then so much the better. Burt is the founder and CEO of SALT—or Sport and Life Training—a not-for-profit organisation that provides education, culture and leadership programs to businesses, schools and sporting clubs. SALT offers a range of courses—wellbeing and mental health, drugs and alcohol, equality and respect—all with the goal of encouraging a more positive and supportive environment for the people taking part. The concept started at the sporting club level but it works just as effectively in a workplace situation, provided there’s a positive response to the question at the heart of the presentation: is it possible for your organisation to function as a team?

MAKING TEAMS WORK AT WORK

The first workplace presentation was for a transport company, after the owner told SALT his employees had no idea of the concept of ‘team’, to the point where they wouldn’t even wear the shirts supplied by the company. “We had to really explore the issues behind why we come to work,” says Burt, “and then we looked at each person’s strengths and how each could lead within the company using their major strengths most effectively.” From there came calls from a financial planning company, a real estate group, and a quarry—all very different, but the sessions were equally successful. Burt puts that down to an excellent team of facilitators and programs that are highly interactive and fun, as well as informative and educational. Importantly, while the aim of the exercise is to make every employee feel safe and valued, it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. “Within any team—and that includes the workplace—people play their roles and have their differences, and their reasons for being there,” Burt says. “Once they get past the fact they are paid to be there, they acknowledge it is also about connections, relationships, meaning and achievement. We still have to be contributing to something and growing as people, and becoming better, and more connected and more empathetic, and more able to see when our work colleagues aren’t coping. “We always modify the program depending on the group but we are moving towards doing far more in the wellbeing and mental health space and helping organisations set up sustainable systems of looking after each other.”

WHERE SALT STARTED

The idea of SALT started 15 years ago when Burt, who has been a teacher, sporting coach and chaplain for more than 30 years, was talking to people about the power of sporting clubs. He felt frustrated by the fact that what was happening off the field was far less positive than what was seen during a game. “At the time, there was still a tendency in many clubs to glorify binge drinking, negative attitudes towards women and macho attitudes to wellbeing and mental health. We introduced our kids to these unhealthy off-field cultures, and nobody challenged what was going on.” Beyond those negative aspects, Burt recognised there was a positivity and strength about sporting clubs that could be harnessed; they were part of the problem, but they could also be part of the solution. “The sporting club is a powerfully connected place. People go because they want to be there. The volunteers care about ‘their’ people for all the right reasons. The village mentality we knew in suburbs or churches or schools has largely dissipated, and now the sporting club is the community hub for many people. “Coaches and players demonstrate tremendous dedication to the sport and to each other. They’re on the same page because they value their game and their team. So the idea of SALT was to take the strengths that people use when they’re motivated—which is often when they are playing sport— and apply them off the field. All of us, if we can identify our strengths and apply them more widely, can become better versions of ourselves.”

TAKING SHAPE

As the idea took shape, Burt’s son joined a new sports club and Burt volunteered his services as chaplain and ‘welfare’ coordinator. He saw the teenagers struggling with issues around identity, self-esteem and wellbeing, and decided to create some programs to help. Other clubs called for assistance. Then the turning point. Within 18 months, Burt visited seven different clubs where there had been a suicide. “On one occasion, the coach introduced me to the young man’s teammates saying ‘boys, you know I love you, but I don’t know what to do so we have an expert to help’.” Not feeling much like an expert, Burt simply spoke to each lad. As he expected, most said they were okay. One said no. Burt asked the others if they would help him. As they said yes, they started admitting their own vulnerability. “I think they were willing to be real at the club because they felt safe. There were parents there too, and everyone was saying ‘we didn’t see it coming’. I think everyone realised if we could help before a suicide rather than after, that was very powerful.”

WHERE THE CONNECTION LIES

As Burt reached his own conclusions about the support sporting clubs could offer, Victoria’s La Trobe University released a study showing that men are potentially three times more connected in the footy club than they are anywhere else. SALT operates through the support of a number of sponsors, including CSS. Since 2015, the team has done around 1000 presentations. Until recently, most have been done with sporting clubs, but now more workplaces are calling for assistance, usually as a result of someone seeing SALT in action at their local sports club and realising the wider benefits.

Birth of the Sandbarra Ute

“I was looking for a project,” says Chris Dicker, managing director of CSS member store Mandurah Bolt Supplies. He’s talking about his creation of the Sandbarra ute, which recently featured in Street Machine magazine and in the Hot Rod and Street Machine Spectacular in Perth. Calling it a project seems an understatement—it was a two-year labour of love that called on all his skills and knowledge and has bought attention and acclaim from around the world. Dicker’s love of speedway, drag racing, and cars is in his blood. “Dad raced speedway and he was into cars and fixing them,” he says. “And I just idolised him as my hero and was in the shed with him all the time as a young kid.”A fitter machinist by trade, Dicker ended up in the fasteners business through injury as much as anything else, but he never lost his love of restoring cars. He had the opportunity to purchase the unit next door to his bolt shop, and Dickers Speed Shoppe was born. Son James, now 18, was keen to do an apprenticeship as a mechanic. Chris found a rusted-out Holden ute which he purchased for $1000 and suggested it as a project.

“Being a fitter machinist I likedesign and engineering and making my own things,” he adds. “And I didn’t want to just do a standard restoration on the ute. My son and one of his mates were mucking around and said, ‘Put a Fordbarra XR6 turbo engine in it, they go alright.’ They were laughing about it, and I thought, well if that’s the sort of reaction we’re going to get I might have a crack at this because people think we can’t do it.” There’s a good reason people think you can’t fit a Ford engine into a Holdenute. “You’ve got to maintain the same crankshaft centre-line as the old Holden engine to keep the low centre of gravity,” Dicker explains. “The pickup on the Ford engine comes from the front, near the front of the harmonic balancer and it travels a long way to the back of the sump. But the Holden doesn’t have the area because it’s got a cross member and steering arms and sway-bar in the way. I had to come out through the side of the block and then go externally with a line that picks up frombottom of the sump. That was the first of many design challenges that kept Dicker switching between shops a couple of times a week. “I would tell people It was my ‘golf day’ and I would go out the back of my workshop, which I’ve got here at work, and I’d have the car in the hoist and dirty clothes on and I’d be grinding and cutting and nutting it out. And designing my own cross member and making the mounts fit and doing the mathematical calculations.” To force himself to stay committed, he started a Facebook page detailing the process of the restoration. “I’d update that every time I worked on it,” he explains. “It gave me a bit of satisfaction to say, ‘okay, what can I put on the page that people can see that I’ve done?’ And it’s spurred me on to keep doing things.” One of that page’s followers was a journalist from Street Machine magazine, and their interest started rubbing off on others. Dicker set himself a deadline to finish before the Hot Rod and Street Machine Spectacular. He finished the car at midnight the day before the show started. By that stage he’d gathered several thousand followers for the Facebook page. When he took photos of the finished ute at the show, they went viral, clocking up more than 330,000 views from Australia, New Zealand, the US, and elsewhere. The final result, christened the Sandbarra (for Sandman ute and the Barra engine), has now featured in a number of magazines and online, and you can still see Dicker’s progress reports on the original Facebook page (just search Facebook for ‘FG Holden Ute’). “It’s certainly been an after-hours labour of love,” he says now.

A Donation From CSS Members Will Make A Real Difference To Young People Affected By Cancer.

Harry is a Youth Ambassador for CanTeen, the charity that supports the 23,000 young people that go through a cancer experience in Australia every year. “CanTeen became a part of my life when my Mum discovered that she had ovarian cancer,” Harry recalls. Young people between the ages of 12 and 25 often fall through the gaps when it comes to cancer care – they’re not children and they’re not quite adults. It was during this period when Harry’s family was, in his own words: “on the rocks harder than a recent shipwreck”, that they found CanTeen. As well as supporting young people aged 12-25 with cancer, CanTeen also supports those living through a family member’s cancer, a sibling’s or the death of a loved one. And it’s down to generous donations and ongoing support from local communities that can make all the difference in allowing CanTeen to roll out specialist programs that deal with everything from grief and emotions to fun activities and team building.

A Surprise Gift

During the CSS gala dinner at our May conference in Coogee, Ross Wharton of Resource Trading in Kalgoorlie won a very select bottle of whiskey as a prize donated by Imex Lasers. He immediately asked us if we would like to auction the bottle off to see if we could raise a few dollars for our selected charity—CanTeen. Many of the attending suppliers donated items to the ‘pool lot’. In the end Tony Scali, on behalf of No1 Roofing and Building Supplies, won with a bid of $32,000. Prior to the auction, Jeff Wellard (CSS Managing Director) announced CSS would match the winning bid dollar for dollar, so the total jumped to $64,000. In addition to this, the CSS members attending the conference donated a further $4,650 dollars which took the grand total donation to an amazing $68,650.00. Paul Davy of CSS and Fred Hall (DBF Tools) then met with Ruby Hart, Victorian State Manager of Canteen, to present the donation. They explained the auction process. They never mentioned the final bid amount but rather just handed over the cheque from No.1 Roofing and Building Supplies for the $32,000. After letting Ruby catch her breath, they handed her the second cheque. Later, Ruby wrote a letter of thanks, saying: I am still finding the right words to acknowledge the significance of the donation. These funds support us to do incredibly important work with young people dealing with cancer, and support their families when life is turned upside down. It is truly a rare experience to receive the kind of support we have from you, your team and members of CSS.

The cost of not looking after health and safety on site is being highlighted by new research from the Australian Physiotherapy Association.

New research by the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) shows Australian tradies are more likely to take care of their tools than their own bodies. The Empirica Research survey commissioned by the APA revealed that 79 per cent of tradies report taking good care of their tools compared to just 47 percent who took good care of their bodies. The research came out around the same time as News Ltd newspapers have been campaigning around a recent increase in cases of silicosis—a progressive, incurable condition that has been dubbed “the new asbestos”. It has even sparked calls for a national ban on dry cutting techniques in workshops. According to the APA research, nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of tradies said they had been injured in their current job and half of these said they expected to be injured again.

“Many tradies are not seeking treatment or are delaying treatment until their injury becomes a much bigger and more complex issue. We know that lower back pain, knee and shoulder issues are common, yet almost a quarter (22percent) of tradies in our survey said they didn’t seek assistance from a health professional for their injury, which led to a longer recovery time or chronic injury,” said APA national president Phil Calvert.  Mr Calvert said a proper warm-up before work including appropriate stretching and using correct lifting techniques could help prevent injuries. “While health and safety messages are getting through—with 68 per cent saying they follow safe lifting guidelines—only 23 per cent of tradies said they warm up before they start work.”

Mr Calvert said attitudes were changing slowly, given that 55 per cent of tradies still thought aches and pains were just normal for the work they do and nearly a quarter (24 per cent) said they would think awork mate was ‘a wuss’ if they complained about an injury. “Too many tradies are living with the attitude that injuries come part and parcel with the job, but that just doesn’t have to be the case,” he said. From a management perspective, while looking after the tools is important, a recent Government report has found healthy workers are a boon to the bottom line. The healthiest workers in an organisation are almost three times more effective at their job than unhealthy workers, according to an Australian Government Comcare paper on workplace health and wellbeing programs. It states for every dollar invested by companies in workplace health programs, on average $5.81 will be returned in savings.  These savings come from a range of elements including reduced staff turnover, absenteeism and workers’ compensation claims, attracting higher quality staff, as well as increased creativity, innovation and general productivity. Organisational image and fulfilling corporate social responsibilities were also cited as benefits.

Hi, Tom Drane here to provide a little update as to what my TDR team have been up to and where we are at. Back in May we headed across to the United States to compete in the American Flat Track Grand Nationals being held in Springfield, Illinois. My team consisted of Matt Drane (my father and owner of M D Steel Fabrications in Forbes), Darren Herrick (chief mechanic and former Australian Dirt Track National Champion) and Daniel Wicks (mechanic and current Australian Whip Cracking Champion). My aim was to compete in three different classes (65ccDTX, 85ccDTX and 85ccMOD) over a three-week period of the US Nationals and it was sensational to have a great team behind me helping me achieve the goals I’d set.

When we got into Springfield, there were only a few days for me to get to know the bikes I was going to ride in three different classes, on a track I did not know and against kids whose racing ability and style were totally unknown to me. Daunting to say the least.  Prior to the Nationals we actually signed up for an unrelated race meeting so we could test the bikes and I could get the feel of US tracks in the six-lap heat races and final which was known as the Main Event. The track consisted of right-hand turns and a large jump in the middle. Our aim was to make the Main Event, which I did in the two classes we entered and then I actually went on to win both.

On May 29 the Nationals started and my team and I were ready to do my sponsors and country proud. Over the next four days, we took on intense competition and hard work. Early starts, late finishes and hard riding were physically and mentally demanding but all of us at Team Drane enjoyed every second of the experience. At the end of the day, I placed 1st in the 65ccDTX and 85ccDTX and 2nd in the 85MOD behind fellow Aussie racer Harrison Voight.

Minister for Employment, Senator Eric Abetz, said the new code sets out the standard of workplace relations conduct expected from those contractors that want to perform work funded by the Commonwealth Government.
“Fair, productive and lawful building sites are critical to Australia’s competitiveness, and job creation potential,” Senator Abetz said.

“It is important that contractors that want to work on projects funded by the taxpayer have the ability to operate efficiently and flexibly to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.
“For too long, the building and construction sector has provided the worst examples of industrial relations lawless- ness. The code emphasises the importance of compliance with the law and freedom of association on building sites.”

Under the Fair and Lawful Building Sites Code 2014, contractors that choose to be eligible for Commonwealth- funded building work will need to comply with the new code. If contractors do not comply, they won’t be able to work on Commonwealth-funded projects.

The new code also recognises the right of entry provisions as a privilege given to officials of registered organisations and, accordingly, requires strict compliance with the right of entry laws by all industry participants.

Contractors will be covered, prospectively, from the first time they tender for Commonwealth-funded building work after the new code commences. Once a contractor is covered, it will be required to act consistently with it, including any future privately funded work.

When in effect, the provisions of the code will apply in respect of enterprise agreements made after 24 April 2014. This means that from commencement of the code, contractors covered by agreements that were made after 24 April 2014 that do not comply with the code’s content requirements for enterprise agreements will not be eligible to tender for and be awarded Commonwealth- funded building work.

The Productivity Commission’s recently released draft inquiry report
into Public Infrastructure concluded that Government procurement codes such as that which is in place in Victoria were “powerful” and “influential” instruments in the sector.

“We have worked with state governments who have put in place their own codes to ensure a broad consistency in approach,” Senator Abetz said.

More information is available at: www.employment.gov.au/BuildingCode. 

The Sydney Fish Market is the largest working fish market in the southern hemisphere, trading 50 tonnes of seafood each day. It is also home to six seafood retailers, a bottle shop, grocer, restaurants, gift shop and deli.

As part of a large facility upgrade, Sika and Danlaid Contracting Sydney were appointed to refurbish the fish market’s deteriorating floor. The project required the new floor to meet food- grade standards, withstand heavy foot and forklift traffic, and tolerate excess water on its surface. As an added challenge, the floor had to be demolished, prepared, regarded and laid in stages while the market continued to trade.
“Despite several previous upgrades, the existing floor was in a poor state which was impacting trading conditions. To remedy this, the floor was hydro demolished to depths of up to 50 millimetres to provide a sound substrate on which to rebuild. The floor was then regarded to create positive falls for water displacement. An epoxy sub-fill mortar was used to recreate the levels,” said Anthony Lewis, market field manager— flooring at Sika.

Sikafloor® 22 PurCem®, a low-VOC water-based polyurethane screed, was selected to finish the floor. Certified for the food industry, it is slip resistant, heat resistant, and is easy to maintain and clean. It is particularly suited to food and beverage processing plants, wet or dry process areas, freezers, coolers and thermal shock area.

The job faced a host of unique challenges. “This was our most difficult project ever. Upgrading the floor during a live trading period meant effective project management was critical. It was also important to use a flooring solution that minimised disruptions to trading operations,” said Matthew Dall of Dan- laid Contracting Sydney, the contractor appointed to the project.

To allow trading to continue, the existing floor was cordoned off in sections and the upgrade was completed in eight stages. As a fast application solution, Sikafloor® 22 PurCem® allowed each section to be re-commissioned quickly and efficiently, reducing down time.

“Each completed section was quickly reopened for trading, which meant the floors were constantly wet as seafood was moved around the market. Sikafloor® 22 PurCem® is able to tolerate high levels of moisture in the concrete, making it ideal for this project. We also had to consider how the upgrade could impact customer experience. As a low-odour product, Sikafloor® 22 PurCem® didn’t taint the fish, and customers didn’t experience smells that could impact sales.”

The McGrath Foundation funds McGrath Breast Care Nurses in communities right across Australia and raises breast aware- ness among young Australians. Through their network of specially trained nurses, the foundation has supported 25,000 families experiencing breast cancer in Australia and is proud to have placed a breast care nurse in every state, reaching regional, rural and metro areas. Frontier will donate a percentage of each sale from the range towards the foundation whose mission is to ensure every family experiencing breast cancer has access to a McGrath Breast Care Nurse, no matter where they live or their financial situations.

Frontier’s McGrath Foundation product range is extensive and includes Contego Mechanics Gloves, Croc Grips, Mack Boots, Safety spectacles (for men and women), reflective safety vests, hard hats, earmuffs and Icekeg coolers. All items are manufactured to the highest quality and certified as meeting all relevant Australian Standards.

Each item has a splash of pink, reflecting the McGrath Foundation signature colour. The Frontier and McGrath Foundation product catalogue can be viewed at www.frontiersafety.com.au. Every item sold will go towards the McGrath Foundation and really will make a difference to communities experiencing breast cancer in Australia.

The architects behind the Moscow upside-down house project have studied international experiences—many of which are theme parks—and created their own design using the most successful and popular solutions for similar interactive attractions. A house that stands on its roof can also be found in the Polish village of Szymbark, at the foot of Mount Wiezyca, the highest mountain in the Kaszubian Province. Polish architects created another signature upside-down house in the small western Austrian village of Terfens.

Upside-down houses can also be seen in Kiev; a house in the seaside resort in Trassenheide in Germany; and one in the Japanese city of Matsumoto, just to name a few. There’s also a series of upside-down White Houses in the US: in Orlando, Florida and Tennessee, as well as the so-called Top Secret, the biggest upside-down White House, in Wisconsin.

No matter what your personal belief about climate change is, no-one is debating the fact that electricity prices are rising. And if you’re in a power-hungry business like manufacturing structural steel, you would be watching your margins steadily eroded by those inexorably rising costs. That’s why Malcom and Bryce Fleming of Caneland Engineering decided to do something about it and install one of the largest privately owned solar grid connect installations in regional Queensland.

Caneland Engineering started out in 1966. “My father started out in the cane industry, building cane bins and cane trailers for the sugar cane industry,” says co-owner Malcolm Fleming.

“And then when the sugar industry started getting a little bit quiet, we diversified into structural steel for commercial and industrial buildings. So it’s not little garden sheds—it’s big mine jobs, and structural steel jobs. And that’s where we’re situated at the moment. Our company produces approximately 2000 tonnes of structural steel throughout Queensland every year, and employs more than 50 people from draftsmen, estimators, boilermakers, welders, painters, abrasive blast operators, dog-men, riggers, crane drivers and truck drivers.”

The company has stayed in family hands, with Malcolm and his brother Bryce taking over the reins after being in the family business from a young age. “We do the drafting in-house for the buildings, and the fabrication is done in our Bundaberg based factory. The job is then abrasive blasted before been painted in-house. Using our own transport, the job is trucked to site, for our own crews to construct.” Fleming explains.

The energy requirements to do such projects are massive. “There were two reasons we decided to install solar panels, the first was the fact that the energy costs were obviously going up and up,” he continues. “Every time you look at your quarterly bill, it’s gone up another four to five per cent, and the predicted outcome of the energy scenario isn’t going to be good in the next couple of years. We’re talking about doubling in that cost. “The other appeal was the environmental side. A lot more companies now are pushing that side of it, for what we work for.” Malcolm Fleming, co-owner, Caneland Engineering We’re using an average $30,000-$40,000 a quarter in electricity in our premises at the moment so we wanted to get that cost down.The other appeal was the environmental side. A lot more companies now are pushing that side of it, so we wanted to keep up to date with minimising our carbon foot print and protecting our environment.”

One of the priorities for Caneland was employing a local business to help them out. “We try to support local businesses where we can,” says Fleming. “That’s why we commissioned Scott Burke Electrical to install the panels, because he’s a local guy. That’s also why we use The Bolt Place Bundaberg to supply consumable products in other aspects of our building. The Bolt Place Bundaberg (which is a CSS member) supplied fixings for Scott for this job, and we need a fair few bolts for our jobs ourselves. We give them a fair bit of business and they look after us pretty well, so it’s a good relationship.”

Julie West from The Bolt Place adds, “Caneland are like that. They are very, very loyal to locals, and try to deal with people within the town. So we’ve built up a great trusting relationship with them.”

For his part, Scott Burke of Scott Burke Electrical saw the job as a solid professional challenge. “We’ve done solar now for four to five years, from mums and dads sized systems right through to the commercial ones,” he says. “But in the last couple of years, we’ve found that the commercial market is becoming larger and is going be more prominent in the solar market.”

With a brief to design and install a solar grid connect system to offset Caneland’s electricity usage during the working week (Monday-Friday), Scott and his team logged their site usage and designed a 99kW system. This consisted of 396 x 250W Suntech poly crystalline panels, and 6 x SMA 15kW 3-phase inverters. Panels have been placed in North East and North Western aspects to give a broad coverage of daily generation to offset as much electricity as possible.

“The reason we had the 99kW system installed is because once we get up to 100 kilowatts, you are classed as a power generator. So therefore the power company won’t give you credit back in a bulk amount at the start. You’ve got to apply for that every quarter. I think there’s a fair bit involved in that, so that’s why we decided to go this other way and we get a rebate back straight away in a bulk amount.” says Fleming.

Ergon Energy stipulated the solar system to be ‘zero export’ (inverters ramp down when energy is not needed on site). This was implemented by a specially designed ‘zero export’ device manufactured by GNT Engineering. The device sends signals to the inverters to ramp up and down depending on the sites electricity demand. The system is also monitored by ‘Solar Analytics’ which emails performance based re- ports to the customer, and also will raise an alert if there happens to be a fault.

The impact of that, Fleming says, is “whatever we generate, we have to use. On the weekend if we generate power, and we’re not working, it just goes to waste. We have to change a few things around to try and utilise the solar, so we’re trying to change our hours. We’re family orientated, and believe people should have weekends to themselves, so we try to do most of our work during the weekdays. We have been working 6.30 starts and in winter we’re going to change that to 7.30 to utilise the day- light. The plant runs five days a week and the basic hours are eight hours a day, but 60 to 70 per cent of the year depending on workload, we do over- time. There’s going to be times where we have to work in the dark, especially in the winter hours when you only get eight or so hours of daylight. So, it’s just a fact of life that we can’t generate everything that we need.”

Nonetheless, the sheer size of the project was impressive. Julie West from The Bolt Place says that isn’t something the people at Caneland would make a fuss about. She didn’t realise the size “In the last couple of years, we’ve found that the commercial market is becoming larger.” Scott Burke of Scott Burke Electrical of the project itself until they began purchasing hardware for the plant which is part of the system. “They’re one of two large engineering companies within Bundaberg, and they’re really loyal customers of ours,” she explains. “So, they came to us a few weeks ago because they were building a cooled plant room. So, of course I said, ‘What’s all this about?’ And they told me that they were installing some solar panels on the roof of their sheds to run their own power. I said, ‘Gosh! Well, that must be pretty big.’ And they agreed, ‘Yes, it should be around about 396 panels.’ I said, ‘Who is doing that for you?’ They mentioned Scott Burke Electrical, who is also a customer of ours. So, we started chatting and then I exclaimed, ‘396 panels! That’s going to be absolutely huge.’

They agreed saying they believe it to be one of the biggest in S.E Queensland, if not all of Queensland.

The system covers the main work- shop, which is roughly 60 metres long by 20 metres wide. One side of the paneling is flat on the roof, to benefit from the Western setting sun in the afternoon, and the other side is up on an angle to benefit from the morning sun. The system will generate and offset over 110,000kW of electricity per annum, saving over $36,000 in electricity costs and over $1 million dollars over the life of the system. It also offsets 100 tonnes of CO2 per year. Says Scott Burke, “From what I know, it’s one of the largest privately owned solar grid connect systems in regional Queensland. And you’ll see more and more of this in the coming years as the prices of electricity rise to a situation where solar power becomes very viable.”