{"id":116430,"date":"2020-11-29T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tasmania-declares-itself-100-per-cent-powered-by-renewable-electricity"},"modified":"2020-11-29T04:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T12:22:21","slug":"tasmania-declares-itself-100-per-cent-powered-by-renewable-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/tasmania-declares-itself-100-per-cent-powered-by-renewable-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania declares itself 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tasmania-declares-itself-100-per-cent-powered-by-renewable-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tasmania government has declared that it has become the first Australian state, and one of just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide, to be powered entirely by renewable electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Friday, Tasmanian energy minister Guy Barnett said that state had effectively become entirely self-sufficient for supplies of renewable electricity, supplied by the state\u2019s wind and hydroelectricity projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached 100 per cent thanks to our commitment to realising Tasmania\u2019s renewable energy potential through our nation-leading energy policies and making Tasmania attractive for industry investment, which in turn is creating jobs across the State, particularly in our regions,\u201d Barnett said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tasmania government has declared that it has become the first Australian state, and one of just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide, to be powered entirely by renewable electricity. In a statement released on Friday, Tasmanian energy minister Guy Barnett said that state had effectively become entirely self-sufficient for supplies of renewable electricity, supplied by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1497,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-energy","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}