Sources, References, Extra Reading

 

Sources:
Securing Australia’s Energy Future, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet,
Special Report Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, November 2005
The Effect of Industry Structure on Generation Competition and End-User Prices in the National Electricity Market, Bardak Management Services, Autumn 2005
Australian Energy National and State Projections To 2019-20, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, August 2004
Nuclear Hydrogen for Peak Electricity Production and Spinning Reserve, C. W. Forsberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005
Schott Memorandum
Is Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plant Technology Ready for its Next Growth Surge?, US National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Comparing Statewide Economic Impacts of New Generation from Wind, Coal, and Natural Gas in Arizona, Colorado, and Michigan, US National Renewable Energy Laboratory
On the Way to a Sustainable Energy Future, Ulf Bossel, European Fuel Cell Forum
A Solar Grand Plan -- Scientific American, January, 2008
A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy, Scientific American, June 26, 2006

 

Additional Reading:

Introduction:

Feed In Tariffs
Solar expert wants same support as coal
Poll finds 76% want renewables subsidy
Bligh dangles solar carrot
Profit from solar power made at home, The Australian, Feb 16, 2008
Solar users reap dividend, The Australian, Aug 14, 2007
Referendum on nuclear power
Victoria Plans For Plebiscite on Nukes
Carbon Trading/Carbon Taxes
Garnaut has faith in market forces
Carbon cuts to bring tax boost
Top conservative in favour of carbon tax
$100bn in carbon futures coming soon
Carbon trading centres: ready to flood the Asia Pacific
Australia's Carbon Price May Be Double Forecast, Citigroup Says
Learning Curve
Silicon Valley Starts to Turn Its Face to the Sun, New York Times, Feb 14, 2008
Power Industry Investment
Electricity prices overheat
Here comes the sun: Stanhope plans solar city
Australian power industry needs $94bn investment: report
Power industry calls for $10b investment
Carbon Neutrality
Nation told it must aim to be carbon neutral
The Cost Of Oil Wars
Iraq, Afghan wars costing $US3 trillion: experts
Solar Energy
Is Solar Power Inherently Deflationary?
Clean Coal: Too Little, Too Late
"Clean coal" elusive as governments balk at cost, Reuters, April 10, 2008
Clean coal power station a step closer: Bligh
Australia: Clean Energy Superpower
Australia to speak up in the world: PM
Time to go global, urges Rudd

Background:
Public Opinion
Poll finds 76% want renewables subsidy
Most 'want more climate-change action'

Australia's Situation:
Inadequate Infrastructure
Electricity prices overheat

Future Energy Prices:
Solar Power to Rule in 20 Years, Futurists Say
Utilities Turn From Coal to Gas, Raising Risk of Price Increase

The Blended Solution
Geothermal
Push for hot rock funding
Hot-rock shares in 36pc leap
Hot-rock firms in talks with BHP
259MW Dajarat Geothermal Plant in Indonesia powering 4 million homes
US$800 million, 100MW Sarulla Geothermal plant in Indonesia
Geothermal energy has great potential
Lateline Hot Rocks
Geothermal/Solar
When you're hot you're hot, Melbourne Herald Sun, Feb 21, 2008
Geothermal/Wind
Work starts on $135m wind farm

Getting the Energy to Market
Green Path/Tehachapi, California
Calif. project called key to future US wind power
Powerlink fans, foes face off
California ISO Board Approves Sunrise/Greenpath
Transmission Project
High Capacity Power Lines in Australia


Temasek plugs into Basslink
ABB Background material on HCDV -- HCDV power lines Australia salesman
Infrastructure Investment
Home broadband proposed
Australian power industry needs $94bn investment: report

Put the Nukes At Roxby
BHP/Olympic Dam
BHP rejects cost blowout at Olympic Dam
BHP to use half of state's electricity
SA could become 'Saudi Arabia of energy'
BHP wants to ship raw uranium ore
Hot-rock firms in talks with BHP
BHP snubs SA carbon reductions
Olympic Dam deal for GRD -- Uranium processing
Onsite refining before mine expansion, The Australian, Dec 3, 2007
Uranium Processing
Uranium processing chaos could mean a hard rain falls on Australian miners
Dangers of Nuclear
Australia could lead safe path to nuclear, Sydney Morning Herald, April 10, 2008
Rann bans 'cowboy' uranium firm, The Australian, Feb 13, 2008
Yucca Mountain
As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises , New York Times, Feb 16, 2008
Nuclear Energy/Australia
Local reactor 15 years away
Minister condemns nuclear 'scare tactic'
Resident vote casts doubt on nuclear plants
Nuclear ballots 'a policy U-turn'
Nuclear Problems
Troubled Hanford cleanup has state mulling lawsuit
Idle reactor keeps sick waiting for treatment
Opal nuclear reactor shut down, Herald-Sun, July 27, 2007
New reactor closed down, Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2007
Uranium Mining
Labor resurrects Howard's uranium plan
Low Grade Ores and their Impact on the Cost of Nuclear
Nuclear Energy Becoming Less Sustainable, Cosmos Magazine, March 2008
Sustainability of Uranium Mining and Milling, American Chemical Society, December 2007

 

Hydrogen
In experiment, hydrogen power fuels Miami house
Hydrogen fuel plant to use heat from solar power station
Nuclear plants may be clean hydrogen source, US Department of Energy
ZeroGen could produce hydrogen
Clean Hydrogen Producers solidifies license contract worth (euro)400 million, August 17, 2007
A Power Grid For the Hydrogen Economy, Scientific American, July 2006
Fujitsu's Hydrogen Campus, Business 2.0 Aug 18, 2007
Demand for more electricity

Electric Cars
Kleiner Perkins venture to bring electric cars to U.S.
Harnessing the Sun

Energy Exports

Surge in global demand for LNG, Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2008
Expert Foresees 10 More Years Of Research & Development To Make Solar Energy Competitive, Science Daily, April 4, 2008
"New World Wide Web" Key to Fighting Climate Change
Beijing boosts nuclear energy
Iceland's hydrogen ship heralds fossil-free future
Rudd's uranium reversal irks India
PM flags big battle on global emissions
Telecommunications Precedent
Telstra to lay 9000km cable to Hawaii

What About Coal

Falling Coal Power Plant Values
Compo urged for power firms
'No clean future' for old generators

Vetoing New Coal Fired Power Plants
PM urged to veto new coal-fired generators

Carbon Capture and Storage
Clean coal dilemma as US cuts $2b project

Storing Carbon At Moomba
Moomba Carbon Storage

Insurance Issues
Fast-track for seabed storage of emissions

Clean Coal: Unavailable Until 2020
Critics turn up heat on clean coal claims, ABC News, Ballarat, April 6, 2008

Carbon Taxes

South Australia
Northern/Playford Power Plants
Power Changes Hands
Power Situation
No guarantee of power for SA
City's record heatwave to drag on
Record power prices in SA
Heat Waves
Faster climate change fears
Infrastructure
Advertiser Editorial: Controlling the growth of infrastructure
Strategy for water survival

 

Queensland
Coal Seam Gas
Gas boom to fire LNG exports
Plenty cooking with coal-seam gas

New South Wales
Steep rise in power station gas emissions
Dirty old Munmorah at risk in changing times
Santos plans to pump carbon to Moomba from NSW

Victoria
Carbon Storage
Garnaut floats Gippsland as greenhouse gas trap
Green group worry over new gas storage facility
Ferguson backs coal-fired power
Experiment on clean coal to bury waste
Carbon catchers launch coal's brightest hope
Santos Welcomes Australian Funding Commitment for Moomba Carbon Storage
Santos to double planned CO2 storage hub
Santos to invest $5m on greenhouse gas research centre in Adelaide

Hydrogen
Hydrogen fuel plant to use heat from solar power station

Nullabor Wind
ABB to create transmission link between offshore wind farm and German grid
Trend toward offshore wind farms is good news for suppliers like ABB
A seamless transition
Life in a Plan B Economy
Green Britain Gears Up for Climate Change Battle
Move Over, Oil, There’s Money in Texas Wind

Other Technologies
Waves
Tapping energy from the ocean
Maui to use Oceanlinx power
Tapping energy from the ocean
Maui ocean wave-energy project planned
Value in sea of possibilities
Hydrogen
Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline
Tides
British company to build world’s largest tidal power scheme