Australian Territory (ACT) Outlines Plan for 90% Renewable Energy by 2020

This article was originally published on Renew Economy . It has been reposted with full permission. Wind turbines in ACT via Kate’s Photo Diary The ACT government has outlined an ambitious plan to source 90 per cent of its energy requirements from renewable energy by 2020, with solar, wind and energy efficiency at the centrepiece of its strategy. In a refreshing change from the head in the sand policies on climate change and clean energy adopted by the state conservative governments, particularly Queensland and Victoria, the ACT Climate Change Strategy, released by Energy Minister Simon Corbell in September, also includes a target to reduce the ACT’s carbon emissions by 40 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, by 80 per cent by 2050, and to achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2060. “Solar energy has been the centrepiece of the government’s renewable energy projects to date but thi...

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