{"id":25128,"date":"2018-10-17T05:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=25128"},"modified":"2018-10-17T05:36:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:06:30","slug":"sa-renewable-energy-mb0787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-renewable-energy-mb0787\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australia Loses Renewable Energy Leader Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/renewable-energy-scorecard.png\" alt=\"Renewable energy scorecard\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/renewable-energy-scorecard.png 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/renewable-energy-scorecard-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/renewable-energy-scorecard-768x420.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Australia is no longer the nation&#8217;s outright leader for renewable energy according to a report released yesterday by the Climate Council.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the Council&#8217;s renewable energy scorecards over the last few years, South Australia led other states and territories, but this time around appears tied with Tasmania and the ACT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Powering Progress: States Renewable Energy Race&#8221; notes that while renewable energy generation dropped slightly in South Australia last year to 43.4% (46.6% in 2016), the state is still on track to reach 73% by 2020-21. However, the dropping of SA&#8217;s renewable energy target by the Marshall Government led to a fall in SA&#8217;s ranking says the Council. The previous Premier, Jay Weatherill, had pledged to boost SA&#8217;s renewable energy target from 50% to 75% by 2025 just before he was ousted.<\/p>\n<p>The report acknowledges South Australia still is doing very well on renewables and the Marshall Government hasn&#8217;t been totally missing in action in terms of related support. For example, last month it announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-battery-subsidy-savings\/\">solar battery storage subsidy<\/a>; although whether this provides the best bang for renewable energy buck has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/battery-rebate-discussion-mb0743\/\"> called into question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Climate Council&#8217;s rankings\/grades are not only based on percentage of renewable energy, but also wind and solar power capacity per capita, proportion of households with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar panels<\/a> and renewable energy targets and policies.<\/p>\n<h2>Home Solar Power Proportion<\/h2>\n<p>South Australia also still had the second highest proportion of households with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">rooftop solar<\/a> in the latest scorecard report, trailing Queensland (just) and leading Western Australia by a significant margin.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how all the states and territories stacked up on that front:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QLD &#8211; 32.9%<\/li>\n<li>SA &#8211; 32.3%<\/li>\n<li>WA &#8211; 26.7%<\/li>\n<li>NSW -17. 6%<\/li>\n<li>VIC &#8211; 15.9%<\/li>\n<li>ACT &#8211; 14.2%<\/li>\n<li>TAS &#8211; 14.2%<\/li>\n<li>NT &#8211; 13.8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Australia also ranked a leader in wind and solar energy capacity per capita (1.1kW), a spot it shares with the ACT.<\/p>\n<p>As for the number of postcodes with 50% or more residential solar rooftops, Queensland was the clear winner with 19, followed by South Australia with 4.<\/p>\n<h2>State and Territory Renewable Energy Scorecard 2018<\/h2>\n<p>The overall rankings\/grades for 2018, along with renewable energy percentages (2017):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TAS (A) 87.4%<\/li>\n<li>ACT (A) 46.2%<\/li>\n<li>SA (A) 43.4%<\/li>\n<li>VIC (B) 13.6%<\/li>\n<li>QLD (B) 7.1%<\/li>\n<li>NSW (C) 12.6%<\/li>\n<li>NT (C) 3.0%<\/li>\n<li>WA (C) 7.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Commenting on the report, the Climate Council criticised the Federal Government, while generally praising the states and territories.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Federal government has failed on energy and climate change policy. In five years there have been no effective policies introduced and Australia\u2019s pollution has risen year on year,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/resources\/australias-clean-energy-race-states-outrun-the-feds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Climate Councillor Greg Bourne. &#8220;States, territory governments and businesses have stepped into the vacuum and are leading Australia\u2019s transition to clean power.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/States-Renewable-Energy-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be downloaded here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia is no longer the nation&#8217;s outright leader for renewable energy according to a report released yesterday by the Climate Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Australia Loses Renewable Energy Leader Status<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South Australia is no longer the nation&#039;s outright leader for renewable energy according to a report released yesterday by the Climate Council.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-renewable-energy-mb0787\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Australia Loses Renewable Energy Leader Status\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Australia is no longer the nation&#039;s outright leader for renewable energy according to a report released yesterday by the Climate Council.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-renewable-energy-mb0787\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-16T19:06:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/renewable-energy-scorecard.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"437\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-renewable-energy-mb0787\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-renewable-energy-mb0787\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"South Australia Loses Renewable Energy Leader Status\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-16T19:06:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-renewable-energy-mb0787\/\"},\"wordCount\":448,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sa-renewable-energy-mb0787\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/renewable-energy-scorecard.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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