The Western Australian Government’s response:

The Western Australian Government and electricity companies are working together to assist people to reduce their energy use in homes, businesses, industries and the community. In November 2001, the State Government established the Sustainable Energy Development Office (SEDO). Since then, SEDO has been actively promoting the greater use of renewable energy and improved energy efficiency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the SEDO program, the Energy Smart Government initiative was released in June 2002.

The Energy Smart initiative includes a wide range of energy-savings practices for State Government agencies as well as Western Australian businesses and homes. Through the Energy Smart initiative, the State Government plans to reduce its stationery energy use (or non-transport energy use) by 12 per cent from 2001/2002 to 2006/2007. The State Government agencies are rapidly advancing to meet this target. Since 2002, they have saved $10.9 million in energy costs and avoided producing 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (the equivalent of planting almost 150,000 trees).

For more information, go to:
www1.sedo.energy.wa.gov.au/

To further improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Western Australian Greenhouse Strategy was released in September 2002. The Greenhouse Strategy commits the Western Australian Government to purchasing five per cent of its electricity from cost-effective, renewable energy sources by 2006-2007.

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