NAGA has recently completed a project together with the Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (EAGA) and Ironbark Sustainability called Future Energy Planning. This project sought to build better collaboration between electricity networks and local government planners in Victoria.
The project summary can be found by clicking the image below:
The project summary can be found by clicking the image below:
Under Victoria's planning system local councils and the State Government develop planning schemes to control land use and development. Currently, electricity network planning and land-use planning currently occur in isolation, meaning long term, viable and sustainable options for integrating demand and supply side opportunities are missed. Whilst both land use planning schemes and the national energy market objectives intend to serve the long term interest of the community, they cannot do so whilst operating in isolation. Despite the implications land use planning has on local energy use and demand patterns, existing regulatory requirements do not require either sector to synchronise their respective planning processes. By contrast, considerations of water in the planning process is much more advanced, with good cross sectoral collaboration, early engagement on new developments and considerations of up and downstream impacts. Ongoing and effective collaboration is therefore required between the sectors to ensure that opportunities for well-planned integrated energy solutions are captured.
Objectives
The project sought to enable local governments and Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSP) to work co-operatively on well planned integrated energy solutions by:
This project was funded through a grant from Energy Consumers Australia (ECA) and is being led by the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA) with support from the Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action.
Download a copy of the conference outcomes report here
The final report is available by clicking the below image:
Objectives
The project sought to enable local governments and Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSP) to work co-operatively on well planned integrated energy solutions by:
- fostering engagement between Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSPs) and state and local government planners to co-operatively create planned, integrated energy solutions;
- sharing data and developing resources to identify cross sector planning opportunities in areas of the network that are constrained; and
- establish a replicable process for the identification of integrated energy solutions not currently supported by the existing regulatory processes.
This project was funded through a grant from Energy Consumers Australia (ECA) and is being led by the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA) with support from the Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action.
Download a copy of the conference outcomes report here
The final report is available by clicking the below image:
