Citation
(2013), "News from the net: Australian Climate Commissions latest report “The Critical Decade: Australias Future – Solar Energy", International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 5 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-08-2013-0102
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
News from the net: Australian Climate Commissions latest report “The Critical Decade: Australias Future – Solar Energy
Article Type: News from the net From: International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Volume 5, Issue 4
The Australian Climate Commission has released a new report, titled “The Critical Decade: Australias Future – Solar Energy. The report offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Australias large solar energy resources and how their potential. It follows “The Critical Decade 2013: Climate Change Science Risks and Responses, which showed that the consequences of climate change are already evident and that renewable energy will play an important role in reducing Australias greenhouse emissions.
The key findings of the report include:
* Solar PV has become cheaper and cheaper. As prices have fallen, ordinary Australians have been quietly driving a solar revolution.
* Australias solar industry is growing rapidly, exceeding all expectations and opening opportunities for households, business and job growth.
* Globally, a move towards significantly greater use of solar energy is inevitable.
* Solar will become a more and more important part of the Australian energy mix into the future. Greater demand for solar energy requires grid infrastructure to be upgraded to meet contemporary needs as the industry expands.
* Solar energy systems are poised to play an important role in tackling climate change.
Details on the report, where one can also find a range of infographics as well as a video, can be seen at: http://climatecommission.gov.au/report/solar-energy/