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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 05 Hansard (Tuesday, 25 May 2004) . . Page.. 2211 ..

(4) Does ActewAGL have a goal of a certain number of GreenChoice customers it wishes to bring on board? If so, what is the goal and when is that target date to achieve it? If not, why not;

(5) Is it known what the A.C.T. Conservation Council will do with the $5,000 donation given to the organization by ActewAGL? If so, how will that money be spent? If not, will the Government inquire to find out how that money will be spent?

(6) What are the estimates of reducing greenhouse gases and other harmful elements into the environment by signing up 5 000 customers to GreenChoice?

(7) What number of customers are needed to sign up to GreenChoice to make a significant difference to the environment?

Mr Quinlan: The answer to the member’s questions is as follows:

(1) I am informed that ActewAGL's GreenChoice product was launched in February 1999 and ActewAGL celebrated its 5,000th customer on 24 February 2004. Therefore it has taken approximately 5 years to reach 5,000 GreenChoice customers.

(2) ACTEW advises me that because it is not the only provider of electricity services in the ACT it cannot comment on the exact percentage of renewable energy supplied to the ACT.

I am advised that for the period from July 2002 to December 2003, around 2% of total electricity sales to the ACT market was supplied by ActewAGL from renewable sources. These figures will formally be released in the National Green Power Accreditation Program Annual Audit Report due out in June 2004.

(3) I am advised that the Total GreenChoice numbers at the end of each reporting period were as follows:

(4) I am advised by ACTEW that ActewAGL’s goal, in line with it’s 2003-2004 Environment Action Program, is to increase GreenChoice customers by 10% to 5,080 from the June 2003 target of 4,620 customers. This target needs to be reached by 30 June 2004.

(5) The donation by ActewAGL to the ACT Conservation Council was not required to be allocated to any specific purpose. The Government will not be inquiring about how the donation will be used, considering the basis on which ActewAGL made it.

(6) I am informed that with 5,000 customers, ActewAGL can purchase enough energy from renewable sources to save almost 29,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. This is approximately the same as the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the average family car over 18 months.

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