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Renewable energy

21 Feb 2017

Q. Do you think renewable energy is the solution to our future energy needs or is renewable energy a threat to our future energy supply?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Oct 2016
The solution to our energy needs 64%   72% 58% 90% 55%   60%
A threat to future energy supply 14%   10% 20% 6% 20%   16%
Don’t know 22%   17% 22% 4% 24%   24%

64% (up 4% since October) agree more that renewable energy is the solution to our future energy needs and 14% (down 2%) think it is a threat to future energy supply.

72% of Labor voters and 90% of Greens voters think it is the solution to future energy needs.

Although a small sample, 51% of South Australians think it is the solution and 19% think it is a threat.

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