Following the Strategic Energy Plan, which the Cabinet approved in April 2014, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) established the Long-term Energy Supply and Demand Subcommittee and after the consideration in the subcommittee, the Long-term Energy Supply and Demand Outlook has been decided. The Long-term Energy Supply and Demand Outlook is a forecast and also a vision of a desired future energy supply-demand structure to be realized, in light of the Strategic Energy Plan, by executing the policies based on the basic direction of the energy policy, and assuming the policy goals to be achieved regarding safety, energy security, economic efficiency and environment which are the basic perspectives for the energy policy.

The G20 Energy Efficiency Action Plan (the Action Plan) is a practical plan to strengthen voluntary energy efficiency collaboration in a flexible way. It allows countries to share knowledge, experiences and resources by choosing, on an opt-in basis, preferred activities that best reflect their domestic priorities. Priority areas are as follows: 1.Vehicles: Improving vehicle energy efficiency and emissions performance; 2. Products: Networked devices; 3. Finance: Enhancing capital flows to energy efficiency investments; 4. Buildings: Improving metrics and performance; 5. Industrial energy management: Making industrial processes more energy efficient; Electricity generation: Sharing high-efficiency, low-emissions technologies.

This vehicle standard prescribes the requirements for the measurement of vehicle fuel consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption and range, and the design and application of fuel consumption labels and energy consumption labels to vehicles.

Based on the National Energy Productivity Plan 2015-2030, this Work Plan sets out a specific work plan for energy productivity measures.

The NEPP provides a framework and an economy-wide work plan of new and existing measures designed to coordinate efforts and accelerate improvement to deliver a 40 per cent improvement in Australia’s energy productivity. The NEPP will ensure that measures and reforms are coordinated, complementary and keep pace with market demands and with the growing complexity of new services and technologies in the energy market.

The Plan is defined central to the vision for a stronger Australia. In particular, it outlines how the four pillars of the environment plan, namely Clean Air, Clean Land, Clean Water and Heritage Protection, are contributing to the Government’s vision of a great society by protecting and improving Austalian environment for future generations. Energy-related provisions are particularly relevant to the Clean Air plan and involve Government’s policies to reduce emissions through renewable energy and energy efficiency. Initiatives include the Emissions Reduction Fund, the Renewable Energy Target, and the promotion of vehicles’ efficiency.

The Act makes provision for the operation of a national electricity market and for related purposes.

This Act makes provision for the operation of a national electricity market and for related purposes.

The Act supports the achievement of a number of objectives for national renewable energy development. In particular, it aims to encourage the additional generation of electricity from renewable sources; to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the electricity sector; and to ensure that renewable energy sources are ecologically sustainable. The set objectives will be pursued through the issuing of certificates for the generation of electricity using eligible renewable energy sources and requiring certain purchasers to surrender a specified number of certificates for the electricity that they acquire during a year.

This is a republication of the Electricity Feed-in (Large-scale Renewable Energy Generation) Act 2011, as in force on 9 November 2017. An Act about the large-scale generation of electricity from renewable energy sources, and for other purposes. The objects of this Act are to— (a) promote the establishment of large-scale facilities for the generation of electricity from a range of renewable energy sources in the Australian capital region; and (b) promote the development of the renewable energy generation industry in the ACT and Australia consistent with the development of a national electricity market; and (c) reduce the ACT’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve targets to reduce the ACT’s greenhouse gas emissions; and (d) address the need for urgent action to be taken to reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources while minimising the cost to electricity consumers.