Previous Reports
2007
BCSE survey of electricity retailers buy-back arrangements for small embedded power generators
The BCSE developed a survey on buy-back rates, which was distributed in July 2007 to all electricity retailers operating in Australia at the time.
The Survey report includes the electricity retailers' responses as the appendices.
Please note the following changes to the attached document:
Changes to listed response from AGL
Due to billing systems changes currently in progress, AGL no longer cater to net metering for solar PV customers. This updated condition is now reflected on our Solar PV Program Agreements. This is due to the fact that AGL's new billing system cannot support net metering. Click here to view
Facilitating Disaster Relief Operations and Sustainable Reconstruction: The Enabling Role of Renewable Energy Technologies
Wind Farms and Landscape Values National Assessment Framework
2006
Doing Business in China Publications
The Victorian RET
In November 2005 the Victorian Government announced it would look to implement its own market-based scheme to stimulate investment in new renewable energy power plants. The scheme would aim to have 10 per cent of Victoria's electricity consumption supplied by renewable energy sources by 2010, consistent with the government's policy commitment.
This paper analyses the impacts and rationale of the scheme to assess what it means for Victoria in terms of employment, investment, industry competitiveness, cost to consumers, greenhouse emissions and electricity production. Read More...
Best Practice Guidelines for Wind Farm Developments
In 2002, Auswind, with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage, developed best practice guidelines for wind farm developments in Australia. These Guidelines document best practice processes from site selection, preparation for development application, through to construction, operation and decommissioning at the end of the development's life.
A review of the Guidelines was undertaken in the second half of 2006 to ensure that they continued to reflect best practice (by benchmarking them against international and national standards), and could support the Clean Energy Council Accreditation Scheme which is currently under development.
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2005
WASTE TO ENERGY - A Guide for Local Authorities
This Guide has been developed to provide senior management in Local Authorities with an overview of the opportunities and risks associated with waste-to-energy conversion. The Australian energy market and the relevant policies and regulations are complex. The Guide outlines the issues that should be understood before the organisation makes progress in developing waste-to-energy solutions. A number of international case studies are also provided. Read More...
2004
Technical Guide for Connection of Renewable Generators to the Local Electricity Network
The BCSE has developed the Technical Guide for Connection of Renewable Generators to the Local Electricity Network to address some of the information barriers that renewable generation project proponents face in arranging technical connection for their generation projects to local electricity distribution networks. Read More...
The PV Roadmap
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Clean Energy Future Study
A groundbreaking study demonstrating it is possible to achieve a 50 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from Australia's stationary energy sector by 2040.
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2003
Renewable Energy Industry Structures Project
Government - Business Climate Change Dialogue
The BCSE had been participating on two working groups that were developing policy options for the Commonwealth Government's consideration as part of its forward strategy on greenhouse. Read More...
BCSE Cogeneration Support Program
The BCSE has up to $10 million of funding for BCSE members to support gas-fired cogeneration projects under the Federal Government's Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program (GGAP). Read More...
BCSE Guide for Connection of Embedded Generation in the NEM
The Guide has been developed by the Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE), described below, with the financial support of the Australian, state and territory governments. The Guide was commissioned by the Energy Management Task Force (EMTF) of the former Australian and New Zealand Minerals and Energy Council (ANZMEC). The BCSE has developed the Guide to address some of the information barriers that generation project proponents face in arranging connection for their generation projects to local electricity distribution networks. Read More...
2002
Myth that electricity prices would skyrocket under Kyoto dispelled
The myth that electricity prices would skyrocket if Australia ratified the Kyoto Protocol has been refuted again. Read More...