Letter from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to Minister Woods regarding system-wide energy strategy

 The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment recently wrote to the Minister of Energy and Resources commending the Government’s intention to develop a whole-of-system energy strategy.The Commissioner also expressed concern that if the energy strategy is not finalised until the end of 2024 as planned, it risks being overtaken by decisions made in the meantime.There are several large energy projects actively being considered by the Government and the private sector. These projects contain potentially too many competing claims over too few resources for each of these different projects to be considered in isolation from the rest of the energy system.Read the letter