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  • Aug, 2015

    50% renewable energy target

    Q. The Labor Party recently committed to a target of 50% renewable energy by 2030. Do you approve or disapprove of this policy?

      Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote Other
    Total approve 65% 84% 45% 96% 59%
    Total disapprove 16% 3% 35% 2% 15%
    Strongly approve 25% 40% 8% 43% 20%
    Approve 40% 44% 37% 53% 39%
    Disapprove 9% 3% 18% 1% 8%
    Strongly disapprove 7% * 17% 1% 7%
    Don’t know 19% 13% 20% 3% 25%

    65% approve of the Labor Party commitment to a target of 50% renewable energy by 2030 and 16% disapprove.

    A very high majority of Labor voters (84%) and Greens voters (96%) approve.

    Liberal/National voters were split but more likely to approve (45%) than disapprove (35%).

  • Aug, 2015

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    Electricity costs

    Do you think a 50% renewable target will mean higher or lower electricity costs?

      Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote Other   Approve 50% target Dis-approve 50% target
    Higher costs 51% 45% 67% 42% 48% 48% 82%
    Lower costs 18% 22% 11% 25% 19% 24% 10%
    Much higher costs 24% 12% 42% 8% 27% 13% 71%
    A little higher costs 27% 33% 25% 34% 21% 35% 11%
    A little lower costs 12% 14% 8% 16% 15% 16% 5%
    Much lower costs 6% 8% 3% 9% 4% 8% 5%
    Make no difference to costs 11% 13% 8% 20% 13% 14% 5%
    Don’t know 19% 20% 14% 14% 19% 15% 3%

    51% think that a 50% renewable target will mean higher electricity costs and 18% think it will mean lower costs. 11% think it will make no difference.

    Of those who approve the Labor Party’s 50% renewable target 48% think it will mean higher electricity costs and 24% think it will mean lower costs – although only 13% think it will mean much higher costs.

  • Mar, 2015

    Renewable Energy Target

    Q. The Renewable Energy Target scheme encourages investment in renewable energy by requiring electricity retail companies to purchase a certain amount of renewable energy each year. By the year 2020, at least 20% of electricity must come from renewable resources.

    Do you think this target of 20% renewable energy by 2020 is too high, too low or about right?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote

    other

     

    Feb 14

    Jul 14

    Too high

    8%

    7%

    11%

    5%

    9%

    13%

    13%

    Too low

    33%

    43%

    19%

    61%

    33%

    25%

    29%

    About right

    32%

    29%

    42%

    25%

    29%

    39%

    36%

    Don’t know

    27%

    22%

    28%

    9%

    29%

    23%

    22%

    32% think the current renewable energy target is about right, 33% think it is too low and 8% think it is too high. Since this question was asked in July, those thinking it is too low increased 4 points and those thinking it is too high declined 5 points.

    61% of Greens voters and 43% of Labor voters think it is too low.

  • Jul, 2014

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    Renewable Energy Target

    Q. The Renewable Energy Target scheme encourages investment in renewable energy by requiring electricity retail companies to purchase a certain amount of renewable energy each year. By the year 2020, at least 20% of electricity must come from renewable resources.

    Do you think this target of 20% renewable energy by 2020 is too high, too low or about right?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote

    other

     

    Feb 14

    Too high

    13%

    9%

    20%

    5%

    15%

    13%

    Too low

    29%

    33%

    18%

    64%

    35%

    25%

    About right

    36%

    38%

    42%

    18%

    30%

    39%

    Don’t know

    22%

    20%

    19%

    14%

    20%

    23%

    36% think the current renewable energy target is about right, 29% think it is too low and 13% think it is too high. Since this question was asked in February, those thinking it is too low increased 4 points and those thinking it is about right declined 3 points.

    64% of Greens voters, 33% of Labor voters and 38% of those with university education think it is too low.

  • Feb, 2014

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    Renewable energy target

    Q. The Renewable Energy Target scheme encourages investment in renewable energy by requiring electricity retail companies to purchase a certain amount of renewable energy each year. By the year 2020, at least 20% of electricity must come from renewable resources.

    Do you think this target of 20% renewable energy by 2020 is too high, too low or about right?

     

    Total

     

    Vote Labor

    Vote Lib/Nat

    Vote Greens

    Vote

    other

    Too high

    13%

    7%

    21%

    10%

    13%

    Too low

    25%

    32%

    15%

    62%

    19%

    About right

    39%

    40%

    41%

    19%

    49%

    Don’t know

    23%

    20%

    24%

    9%

    20%

    39% think the current renewable energy target is about right, 25% think it is too low and 13% think it is too high.

    62% of Greens voters, 32% of labor voters and 29% of those with university education think it is too low.

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