Establishing Tasmania’s first Renewable Energy Zone by 2024 is one of the many failed goals listed in the Liberal minority government’s Renewable Energy Roadmap.

The Liberals first announced the north west would be considered to become Tasmania’s first REZ back in 2022.

If missing their own deadline wasn’t enough, or the trauma they caused the local community with their botched approach, rumours are swirling throughout the industry that Premier Rockliff and Minister Duigan are about to scrap it altogether.

They told us Renewable Energy Zones are supposed to make building wind farms easier, but since that announcement nothing has happened.

It has now been over 1,500 days since the last new Tasmanian windfarm was completed*, and that won’t change anytime soon with Rockliff and Duigan supposedly in charge. 

This is a government that never delivers. Big on rhetoric, hopeless on delivery.

*Granville Harbour Wind Farm became fully operational on December 18, 2020

Janie Finlay MP
Shadow Minister for Energy & Renewables