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 [...]
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