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Renewable energy comes from sources including sun, wind, wave, hydro, geothermal and organic matter (biomass).
Generating energy from these sources produces minimal overall greenhouse gas emissions and reduces other impacts on the environment.
Sources of renewable electricity generation in NSW at this time are:
88% hydro
5% biomass
5% landfill methane
1% wind
1% solar
As at 2009, about six per cent of the state's total electricity usage is provided from renewable energy sources. The NSW Government has set targets through the State Plan to increase this to 10 per cent by 2010 and 15 per cent by 2020.
To learn more about NSW renewable energy targets, policies and program click on this link to: NSW Industry and Investment
The Australian Government's Renewable Energy Target (RET) has been established to encourage additional generation of electricity from renewable energy sources. The RET scheme:
- places a legal liability on wholesale purchasers of electricity to proportionally contribute to an additional 45,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable energy per year by 2020.
- sets the framework for both the supply and demand of renewable energy certificates (RECs) via a REC market.
Click on this link to the learn more about the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator.
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