By Jason Deign
Policymakers
looking to speed up renewable energy deployment have a best-practice case
study to look to: Australia is rolling out renewables 10 times faster than
the global average, offering lessons as to what factors can improve the uptake
of clean energy.
A RenewEconomy analysis of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) figures for 2019 shows Australia’s per-capita deployment rate was also four times higher than fast-developing renewable markets such as China, Europe, Japan and the U.S.
In terms of overall capacity, Oceania still only accounts for a tiny share of global renewables. Its 40 gigawatts of renewables amounted to just 2 percent of clean energy worldwide in 2019, IRENA figures show. But it added 6.2 gigawatts of capacity last year, growing more than 18 percent. That compares to 6 percent growth in North America, 7 percent growth in Europe and 9 percent in Asia.
Australia’s modest population of 25 million means per-capita growth rates are even more extreme.
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