Powering Australia Volume 5

 

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Powering Australia Volume 5: Navigating a new electricity supply era

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Chapter List:


  1. Introduction: Pursuing a softer environmental footprint:

    2. Prepare yourself for a step-change in electricity supply and consumption in Australia.

  2. Focusing on policy certainty and a framework for investment:

    3. Extract from a speech by the federal Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson.

  3. A major national infrastructure challenge:

    4. By 2020, coal will no longer be the overwhelmingly dominant source of fuel for electricity generation.

  4. The need for a national energy policy:

    5. More than $10 billion worth of electricity is traded every year in a market that operates 24 hours a day.

  5. Towards a national energy policy:

    6. The governments promise of an energy white paper has whetted the industrys appetite.

  6. Nuclear versus power poor:

    7. How and when is Australia going to decarbonise its electricity supply? Is nuclear power the answer?

  7. Fuel poverty emerges as a real issue:

    8. End-user power prices in 2015 are likely to be twice what they were in 2008.

  8. Conditions may brighten for solar power:

    9. CSIRO believes future advances will enable the sun to meet 30 per cent of our power needs.

  9. Premier states prime supply challenge:

    10. NSWs population has more than doubled since the mid-1950s and is heading for 7.6 million by the end of the decade.

  10. New energy vision for the West:

    11. Western Australia lacks a long-term energy plan. Its last comprehensive energy policy was developed in 1979.

  11. How big a boon is gas for generation?:

    12. Once again gas appears ready to play a golden role in electricity production.

  12. Interstate energy trading on the rise:

    13. How a $2 billion surge in investment transformed the future for wind generated energy.

  13. The solar flagship program:

    14. Preparing to reduce future carbon dioxide emissions from power stations by 10.8 million tonnes.