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Energy Policy

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A Reliable, competitive
& secure energy supply

Which underpins economic growth
to the benefit of our community

Policy Objectives

  • Recognises that Australia needs a reliable, secure and
    competitive energy sector to facilitate industry growth
  • Recognises that the Australian Government has a strategic
    national role to play in the development of energy policy,
    while the State and Territory role is primarily one of regulation
  • Supports the development by government of a comprehensive, integrated, long term, market responsive and output-based energy policy that promotes a fully
    contestable national grid with full inter-connectedness
  • Expects that a national energy policy should underpin Australian Government policy responses to a
    range of issues including investment, infrastructure, innovation, transport, regional development and
    climate change
  • Advocates a competitive market in the generation, transmission and sale of all forms of energy
  • Supports an assessment of Australia’s long term energy needs to ensure an appropriate supply of
    energy to meet the demands of industry
  • Calls on government to encourage a more streamlined energy regulatory environment so that
    industry is not burdened with duplication, inconsistencies and competing aims
  • Encourages further outcomes in electricity and gas market reforms so that there is greater competition
    between generators, suppliers and retailers of electricity
  • Supports effective price competition between energy sources to enable industry to more effectively
    compete in the global market place
  • Expects that market forces over time will broaden the source and fuel mix of Australia’s energy base
    leading to less reliance on coal as an energy source
  • Seeks the identification of impediments to investment in energy infrastructure so that strategies can
    be developed to encourage greater investment in Australia’s energy sector
  • Supports the application of the principles of sustainable development to the development of the
    energy sector. Environmentally sound technologies that are clean, efficient and sustainable should
    be utilised wherever possible
  • Recognises that innovation and the implementation of new technologies by industry will create
    improved energy management and greenhouse performance
  • Advocates a lead role for Australia in promoting reform of energy markets in the Asia region