The Committee has put forward an amendment to the future States’ business which would see the long-awaited Electricity Strategy brought forward from September, Policy and Resources preferred date.
“Our local energy industry needs the States to make a decision on the way forward for our future electricity demand, supply and market framework,” said the President of E&I, Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez.
“We’re keen to maintain the momentum of the extensive work already undertaken and that will help to inform future decisions around specific proposals, but that work is difficult to progress without an agreed strategic direction.
“As far as we’re concerned, there’s no reason not to debate this now so that we can give the certainty and clarity that the local energy industry is asking us for.”
The Committee is concerned that without a strategic direction, businesses are being delayed from making commercial investment decisions.
The amendment should be debated at the end of this week’s sitting.