Now the goal is to maintain that target through a new auction to safeguard the delivery of 100 renewable electricity for our growing city on and from 2020.
Act reverse auction renewable energy.
It now comes to help again as renewable energy investment slows down risking rises in power prices and future energy reliability.
Through the act s reverse auction process companies were invited to submit proposals for the construction of new renewable energy projects such as from wind or solar farms with an aim for completing the project at the possible lowest cost.
The act pioneered an innovative reverse auction process in australia to ensure residents get the best value for their renewable energy.
Successful projects of the first auction were announced on tuesday 11 september 2018.
The victorian government established the victorian renewable energy auction scheme to support the achievement of the victorian renewable energy targets vret.
The act was the first state or territory to introduce the innovative reverse auction process which is now used by other australian states keen to invest in renewable electricity.
The act s renewable electricity target is the most ambitious renewable electricity target in australia.
Their role was crucial in the period following the 2014 review of the renewable energy target ret when confidence in the australian large scale renewable energy market was at an extreme low.
The government has increased the vret to 50 percent by 2030.
The electricity feed in large scale renewable energy generation act 2011 provides the legislative framework for the act s renewable energy reverse auctions.
The four reverse auctions held for large scale solar and wind from 2012 to 2016 are underpinned by the electricity feed in large scale renewable energy generation act 2011.
The act is often credited with throwing a lifeline to the renewable energy industry through a series of reverse auctions during the dark era of the abbott government which tried to scrap the renewable energy target.
New renewable electricity auction.
Following on from the four reverse auctions held between 2012 to 2016 the act government has announced a new renewable energy reverse auction the reverse auction to safeguard the delivery of sourcing 100 renewable electricity by 2020 from within the act or across the national electricity market.
The act government led the way for reverse auctions for large scale renewable energy in australia.
The act s renewable electricity target.