Indigenous renewable energy plays a vital role in our domestic fuel mix and will become even more important in the context of reducing our reliance on imported fuels and in meeting our challenging renewable energy targets for 2020 and 2030 and decarbonising our energy systems by 2050.
The Department for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) is the lead government Department on energy policy, including renewable energy policy.
My Department continuously engages with DCCAE on all energy related matters from an agricultural perspective, as well as a wide range of industry and other stakeholder groupings including those stakeholders involved in this report. The sector has a key role to play in the supply of bioenergy feedstocks as a positive contribution to the decarbonisation of energy systems through the displacement of fossil fuels and energy intensive materials.