New Zealand already has the second highest proportion of renewable energy in the OECD and National is committed to making further progress by reaching the goal of 90 per cent renewable energy by 2025.
This week we announced further progress towards this goal with 77 per cent of our energy being generated from renewable sources in 2011, up from 74 per cent in 2010.
National has taken action on renewable energy. We removed road user charges on electric cars, streamlined the RMA to make renewable energy projects more efficient, and developed the National Policy Statement on Renewable Electricity Generation.
These initiatives are working. In 2011 wind generation increased to 4.5 per cent of total generation and geothermal generation increased to 13.4 per cent.
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