Victoria's renewable energy roadmap

To grow renewable energy in Victoria, the Labor Government is developing a Renewable Energy Action Plan. This Action Plan will set out a range of measures to help drive the utilisation of sustainable energy sources in Victoria. This will include establishing a renewable energy generation target and policies to assist communities to power their neighbourhoods from renewable sources. Through these measures, the Labor Government will promote clean energy and deliver jobs. The Action Plan is being developed in consultation with the Victorian community. This Roadmap informs our consultation. It will: • identify policy and regulatory barriers which are stifling renewable energy development at a state level; • provide information and facilitation services to support renewable energy projects; and • investigate options for Victoria to take action independently where Federal policy is failing, and complementary actions to attract investment and jobs for Victoria. The Roadmap complements work already undertaken by the Labor Government to open up Victoria to additional investment in renewable energy. We have promoted wind energy, by reducing the required consent distance from two kilometres to one kilometre from a dwelling, and returned responsibility for wind farm planning approvals from local councils to the Minister for Planning. We have also awarded funding to two pioneering community energy projects, at Newstead and at Woodend, to develop projects which provide clean energy to their local communities