What is ‘renewable energy’? – conceptualizing the legislative definitions of renewable energy
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Associate Professor, The University of Sydney Law School, Australia.
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 The role of definitions
- 3 The approaches to defining renewable energy adopted by various jurisdictions
- 3.1 No definition
- 3.2 The definition identifies specific energy sources that are ‘renewable’
- 3.3 The definition adopts an exclusionary approach
- 3.4 The definition refers to the depletion and replacement rates
- 3.5 The definition refers to environmentally sustainable development
- 3.6 The definition limits the level of commercialization of the qualifying energy sources
- 3.7 The definition refers to the ‘scientific’ or ‘physical properties’ of the energy
- 3.8 The definition refers to specific renewable technologies
- 4 Combined approaches to the content of definitions
- 5 How should renewable energy be legislatively defined?
- 6 Conclusion
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