Powering Australia Volume 4

 

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Powering Australia Volume 4: Securing Australia's Energy Future

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Chapter List:

  1. New age for renewable generation:

    2. After two plus frustrating years, wind generators are able to pursue a major lift in new development as suppliers confront a fast-rising urban demand for electricty supply.

  2. Tipping the balance: black coal and carbon emissions in eastern Australia:

    3. The richness of the coal resources in Australia's eastern states, combined with rapid increase in electricity demand forecast over the next 20 years, is providing pro-carbon abatement politicians with a powerful policy challenge.

  3. Air-conditioning southeast Queensland:

    4. Policy-makers and power suppliers are pre-occupied with the challenge of meeting the many needs of a million more people in Australia's fastest-growing urban area.

  4. Mining'a thirst for energy:

    5. To maintain Australia's international market share in comming years coal and iron ore production needs to ramp up to three times the rate of growth ahcieved in the last boom.

  5. Largest CCGT takes shape in the Surat Basin:

    6. A gas-fired Darling Downs power station is helping Origin Energy to intgrate its value strategies using its own assets, including access to large volumes of coal seam gas.

  6. Capex challenge for high-voltage networks:

    7. The critical issue for suppliers is to gain regulatory approval for expenditures to replace ageing assets and for charging regimes that reflect to cost of multi-billion-dollar capital raisings.

  7. Smart grids - ready, steady ... no, wait a minute:

    8. An overdue remedy for the pressures on electricity networks, high technology networks cannot be introduced overnight and consumer reactions are giving politician cause for concern.

  8. Electric vehicles and power networks - a new paradigm

    9. As the prospect of Australia's 12 million vehicles being switched to electric power over time becomes more likely, network operators are considering the potential benefits and the issues.

  9. Securing sustainable supply for Victoria:

    10. Critical questions need to be addressed to ensure that the state dependant on brown coal-fired generation can meet future power demands with a lower level of emissions.

  10. Fuel cells: maximising the benefits of innovation:

    11. After 20 years of development work and $230 million in research expenditure, new, gas-fired technology from Australia is making a debut abroad, but is struggling at home.

  11. Risky business: retailers confront the challenges of a new decade:

    12. Uncoordinated and inconsistant federal and state policies are a headache for suppliers chasing consumer market share at a time of major change.

  12. Changing face of Tasmania's power supply:

    13. The island state aims to meet clean energy needs at home and to export renewable and low-carbon energy to the mainland.

  13. Revived West faces stand-alone challenge:

    14. Home to a renewed resources boom, Western Australia is wrestling with a range of major supply, cost and emission abatement issues, as well as the problems of isolation.

  14. Waiting in the wings: the nuclear option:

    15. Community concerns and political constraints continue to make Australia shy of adopting a key emissions option for baseload power generation emissions abatement.

  15. Solar's new era of opportunity:

    16. Looking forward two decades, the federal government sees solar power's market share in Australia increasing ten-fold, but from a very low base in 2010.