An energy strategy for Western Australia, finally
The energy minister has just announced the development of a new energy strategy for Western Australia, which is good news. The discussion paper is available now.
One of the goals of the strategy is to increase the level of renewable energy generation in the state to be in line with the Federal Government’s 20% Target by 2020.
Currently it is around 3.8% and lower still in regional areas. Based on the generation figures for 2008, there was 1066MW of new non-renewable generation in development versus only 41MW of renewable generation. It will be very interesting to see what actions the State Government might take to encourage more renewable generation.
One topic that seems to be entirely absent from the discussion paper is energy efficiency. Efficiency measures usually present cheaper and faster ways of reducing greenhouse emissions and use of fossil fuels and this will hopefully get a lot more attention in the final strategy.
Tags: Energy Efficiency, energy strategy, wa
