Malta lagging in energy, emissions targets - AD

Malta was lagging in the implementation of measures to produce 10 per cent of its total energy output from alternative sources and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, Alternattiva Demokratika leader Arnold Cassola said today. He...

Malta was lagging in the implementation of measures to produce 10 per cent of its total energy output from alternative sources and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, Alternattiva Demokratika leader Arnold Cassola said today.

He was speaking after a meeting with David Spiteri Gingell, chairman of the government-appointed Climate Change Committee.

Ralph Cassar, AD’s spokesman on energy, industry and transport said the party had repeatedly called for incentives to promote the use of alternative energy sources.

He said AD was also calling for the installation of three or four onshore wind turbines, the introduction of incentive schemes to encourage the installation of rooftop photovoltaic panels and preferential tariffs for excess electrical energy supplied to the national grid. There should also be a serious well-planned incentive programme to encourage house-owners to change over to solar water heaters.

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