Changing the Way We Live: Investigating Australian Renewable Energy Legislative Measures

This thesis analyses renewable energy legislative measures of South Australia against those of the other jurisdictions that form the National Electricity Market – Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania. The legislative measures analysed are renewable energy target schemes, feed-in tariff schemes, measures that promote research in, and the development and commercialisation of, renewable energy technologies, and subordinate tools that promote ‘grass roots’ action on renewable energy. The key findings of this thesis show the National Electricity Market jurisdictions have played, and continue to play, a valuable role in promoting the increased uptake of renewable energy.