Joining the global move towards ‘Smart Grids’ and Decentralised Energy
Councillors Rerceretnam, Kennedy and Kelso
May 2009
Preamble
At the last Local Government elections held in Sept 2008, the Ashfield Greens promised to fight promote sustainability and encourage the use of public transport options and bicycle use where possible. These initiatives fight Climate Change and its devastating consequences seen around the globe with unprecedented floods and bush fires.
According to the London-based World Energy Council, electrical power generation is the single largest contributor to increases global CO2 levels. However the electrical power generation industry has the potential for great reductions in CO2 emissions in the short and medium term.
In the last 2 decades we have also seen monumental shifts in communications, especially in relation to the Internet. While the use of computers has been allowed to evolve over the decades, one of our largest and most expensive pieces of infrastructure, our electrical power grid, remains largely unchanged in function, interconnectedness and scope.
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