The Energy Savings Scheme is a NSW-based energy efficiency scheme which commenced on 1 July 2009. The objectives of the Energy Savings Scheme are:
- to assist households and businesses to reduce electricity consumption and electricity costs;
- to complement any national scheme for carbon pollution reduction by making the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions achievable at a lower cost; and
- to reduce the cost of, and the need for, additional energy generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure.
The Energy Savings Scheme is designed to increase opportunities to improve energy efficiency by placing obligations on parties to undertake or pay for energy efficiency programs, and rewarding companies that undertake eligible projects that either reduce electricity consumption or improve the efficiency of electricity use. It was developed as a complementary but independent measure to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
For information about the NSW Energy Savings Scheme go to http://www.ess.nsw.gov.au/Home
Mpango wa Uokoaji wa Nishati (EPS) ni mpango wa ufanisi wa nishati wa NSW ulioanzishwa mnamo Julai 1, 2009. Lengo la mpango wa kuokoa nishati ni kusaidia nyumba na biashara kupunguza matumizi ya umeme na gharama za umeme, kukamilisha mpango wowote wa kitaifa wa kupunguza uchafuzi wa kaboni kwa kufanya kupunguza uzalishaji wa gesi ya chafu iwezekanavyo kwa gharama ya chini, na kupunguza gharama na mahitaji ya ujenzi wa umeme wa ziada, usambazaji na usambazaji wa umeme. Mpango wa Uokoaji wa Nishati umekusudiwa kuongeza fursa za kuboresha ufanisi wa nishati kwa kuweka majukumu kwa pande kutekeleza au kulipa kwa programu za ufanisi wa nishati, na kutoa tuzo kwa makampuni ambayo huchukua miradi inayostahili ambayo hupunguza matumizi ya umeme au kuboresha ufanisi wa matumizi ya umeme. Ilitengenezwa kama hatua ya ziada lakini huru kwa Mpango uliopendekezwa wa Kupunguza Uchafuzi wa Kaboni. Kwa maelezo zaidi kuhusu mpango wa NSW wa kuokoa nishati, tembelea www.nsw.gov.au.