EECCA website showcases Australia's energy efficiency schemes

The Energy Efficiency Certificate Creators Association (EECCA) has launched its new website at www.eecca.org.au, providing an entry point for the latest information on all market-based energy efficiency schemes operating in Australia.

The EECCA represents businesses actively involved in market-based energy efficiency schemes across Australia. The association’s president, Bruce Easton, said its new website will serve as “a key tool to assist the EECCA in driving the extension and expansion of existing market-based schemes, enabling easy access to the wealth of trailblazing expertise that now exists for policymakers and scheme participants”.

“On the website, we have used a traffic light indicator, with red, orange and green buttons, to show which jurisdictions in Australia have introduced market-based energy efficiency schemes,” explained Easton. “Green lights are on for Victoria (Victorian Energy Efficiency Target VEET), New South Wales (Energy Savings Scheme ESS), ACT (Energy Efficiency Implementation Scheme EEIS) and South Australia (Retailer Energy Efficiency Scheme REES). The National button is orange as there is no national scheme and the Emissions Reduction Fund provides little incentive currently for energy efficiency projects. That leaves Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory with red buttons. The International button is green as there are more than 50 schemes now operating around the world.

“The EECCA website also profiles our members, who represent the majority of the certificate creation market in Australia as well as leading product suppliers,” Easton continued. “It is often new businesses being established that are quickly developing expertise in world-leading energy efficiency technologies.”