ENERGY TRANSFORMATION
TASKFORCE — WHOLE-OF-SYSTEM PLAN
965. Hon TIM CLIFFORD to the minister representing the
Minister for Energy:
I refer to the Energy Transformation
Taskforce's whole-of-system plan.
(1) Will the
minister confirm that the whole-of-system plan excludes an emissions reduction
objective for each scenario modelled?
(2) Given that
Australia has a national commitment to reduce emissions to 26 to 28 per cent on
2005 levels by 2030 under the Paris Agreement and Western Australia has a net
zero emissions target by 2050, why has an explicit carbon target not been
incorporated into the modelling?
Hon
STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. The following information has been provided to me
by the Minister for Energy.
(1) The whole-of-system plan does
not model an emissions reduction objective.
(2) The WOSP
forecasts the technologies and investments required to meet the assumed
electricity demand under four demand scenarios, using input assumptions on
costs and capabilities of both existing facilities and new types of generation
and storage facilities. As the commonwealth government has not specified the mechanism by which the national commitment to
reduce emissions by 26 to 28 per cent is to be achieved, it is not
possible to include emissions reduction as a cost input for the WOSP modelling.
The emissions outcomes that result over the 20-year horizon under the four
different scenarios is an output of the model.