Final Report: Powering into the New Millenium
Efficiency Standards for Power Generation Working Group, February 2000
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Abstract
This report titled Final Report: Powering into the New Millenium was prepared by the Australian Greenhouse Office on behalf of the Efficiency Standards Working Group (ESWG). It was publicly released in February 2000 and represents the ESWG's majority views on options for implementing the Efficiency Standards measures (referred to as Generator Efficiency Standards or GES).
GES is one of the key energy measures announced in the Prime Minister's 1997 climate change statement, Safeguarding the Future: Australia's Response to Climate Change and aims to encourage businesses to "achieve movement towards best practice" generation performance and, as a result, reduce greenhouse emissions.
GES is designed not to discriminate between different classes of fossil fuels. Efficiency improvements of the fossil-fuel combustion processes can lead to reductions in the greenhouse intensity of the Australian energy sector. This is especially important given that over a third of Australia's greenhouse emissions (by source and not including land use change) arise from the combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generation. It is expected that GES will deliver around 4 Megatonnes per annum of greenhouse reductions.
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