Paul Llewellyn

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Paul Llewellyn (born 8 June 1957) is an Australian politician and renewable energy advocate from Western Australia. He served as a Greens WA member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, representing the South West Region, from 22 May 2005 to 21 May 2009.

Early life and career
Born in South Africa, Llewellyn later moved to Australia. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Murdoch University in 1977 and a Master of Science in Natural Resource Management and Policy from the University of Western Australia in 1984. He worked as an environmental planning and management consultant, a builder, and a wind-energy planner, with more than 30 years of work in the South West.

Politics
In 2004 he was preselected to run for Greens WA in the 2005 state election and was elected to the Legislative Council for the South West Region, serving a fixed term until 2009. In his first speech he invited the council to imagine Western Australia in 2055. He championed climate, energy and water initiatives, introducing laws for renewable energy targets, water conservation targets, solar hot water systems, and emissions controls for power stations. He also moved a motion for a gross feed-in tariff for renewable energy technologies, which passed unanimously in 2009. He retired from Parliament on 21 May 2009.

After politics
Llewellyn remained active in renewable energy, becoming a director of several green energy ventures, including Mt Barker Power Company and Denmark Community Windfarm Limited. His work helped expand clean energy policy in Western Australia.