PAGE Meetings
Thank you to all who attended the PAGE community meeting on 5 January 2008, where our response to
Powerlink’s draft Terms of Reference (ToR) was outlined. Close to 100 people attended, together with
Maroochy Mayor Joe Natoli, Maroochy Shire Councillor Greg Rogerson, Noosa Shire Councillors Brian Linfield
and Raymond Kelly, and Sunshine Coast Regional Council Candidate Vivien [...]
Win TV evening news at Wyoming. Public Meeting comprising interview with PAGE co-ordinator, Graham Smith discussing the unsustainable aspects of Powerlink’s proposal and the massive over supply being brought into the Eumundi area. Also interviewed, was then Mayor of Maroochydore, Joe Natoli. Featured shots of the 100 or so meeting participants.
Below is a scanned copy of the letter that Gordon Jardine, CEO of Powerlink, sent the Minister of Mines and Energy, Geoff Wilson attempting to disregard anything that PAGE said.
The letter concludes:
“Whilst Powerlink will provide (and in many cases, re-provide) the correct information in its newsletters on this project, I would suggest that the correspondence [...]
How the media helps
We have had some excellent coverage in the local media.
And many of the local papers and magazines have invited us to write more letters and comments for publication. The more letters published, the more media interest there will be. Writing letters to the media and your politicians helps to put [...]
The business-as-usual approach to power supply is no longer sustainable. The vast majority of the electricity supply in Queensland is provided by coal-fired power stations. Coal is one of the worst greenhouse gas creating fuels, contributing hugely to climate change. The last projections prepared by the Australian Greenhouse Office [note 1] show energy generation emissions [...]
Things have changed significantly in the past 18 months. A snapshot of the key changes:
Recognition across the political spectrum that an emissions trading scheme must be adopted. The Federal Government is due to deliver by June 2008 a report on the economic impacts of climate change policies and interim emission reduction targets to [...]
The forecast information published and provided as justification for the investment in network infrastructure can be summarised as follows: [note 5]
In the last 40 years electricity demand in the region has grown by around 500%
…forecasts indicate electricity demand will grow by about 30% over the next seven years, and by as much as [...]
The cost to the end user, spread across all users, is that Powerlink and Energex, between them are now spending or planning to spend $5.3bn (Energex $2.71bn and Powerlink $2.6bn) from 2005-2012. This significantly understates the cost of provision of electricity, by breaking up the costs of provision into smaller discrete chunks, where [...]
The Least Cost Planning (LCP) Approach originated in the electricity industry in the US in the 1980’s [note 7] and has been applied to the water and transport sectors in Australia. The principle of LCP is that customers do not actually need electricity; instead they require the services that are provided by this commodity. In [...]
Demand management consists of analysing and identifying the drivers of demand, the main uses of power and the policies for reducing or stabilising energy demand. Listed below are examples of demand management programs:
Installation of smart meters and variable pricing for different times of day (estimated 10-15% saving) [note 9]
In California, the peak period pricing reduced [...]
