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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 464 asked in the Legislative Council on 11 August 2021 by Hon Dr Steve Thomas

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

RENEWABLE ENERGY BUYBACK SCHEME

464. Hon Dr STEVE THOMAS to the minister representing the Minister for Energy:

I refer to the financial years 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 and 2020–21.

(1) For each financial year, how many residential rooftop solar systems have been installed in Western Australia?

(2) For each financial year, what is the total amount of energy purchased through the renewable energy buyback scheme?

Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN replied:

(1)–(2) I thank the member for the question. The following information has been provided to me by the Minister for Energy. This outlines the number of rooftop solar installations and the total amount of energy purchased through that scheme and is substantially in tabular form. I seek leave to have the response incorporated into Hansard.

[Leave granted for the following material to be incorporated.]

(1) The number of new residential roof-top solar installations completed in Western Australia is provided in the below table, for each of the requested financial years.

Period

Number of roof-top solar installations

2016–17

23,861

2017–18

26,132

2018–19

28,095

2019–20

33,021

2020–21

39,901

Notes:

          Figures provided by Horizon Power and Synergy.

          Figures are based on applications to connect a new solar system to the network.

          The number of any off-grid and/or embedded network installations is not known.

(2) The total amount of energy purchased through the Renewable Energy Buyback Scheme (REBS) is provided in the below table, for each of the requested financial years.

Period

Amount of energy purchased through REBS kWh)

2016–17

486,659,925

2017–18

605,424,725

2018–19

774,737,139

2019–20

940,088,295

2020–21

1,165,891,256*

Notes:

          Figures provided by Horizon Power and Synergy.

          Figures do not include any amounts exported to the grid by systems not eligible for REBS — for instance, where the system size exceeded the Scheme criteria.

          *Includes energy purchased through the Distributed Energy Buyback Scheme, which was introduced in September 2020 for new and upgraded residential rooftop systems.