In April 2008, the City of Sydney released Sustainable Sydney 2030 outlining a series of large visionary projects to transform Sydney into a more sustainable, more liveable, global and connected city by 2030. Sustainable Sydney 2030 also recognised the importance of reducing the City’s carbon emissions to both directly contribute to climate change mitigation and...

The Stationary Energy Sector Report concludes that there are no technological impediments to transforming Australia’s stationary energy sector to zero emissions over the next ten years. The costs of transformation are adequately offset by savings made from shifting away from the business as usual scenario. No resource constraints were identified. With adequate societal and political...

The purpose of the Solar Cities trial had been to assess both the technical merits and household behavioural aspects of solar power in predominantly residential applications. This paper analyses an Adelaide case study of a household that participated in this trial.

Mechanisms for transitioning towards a low carbon economy include technological shifts, policy development and programs that require changes in behaviour. Arguably, local councils are well positioned to drive some or all of these.

To plan the future energy security of Western Australia, the energy utility Western Power embraced the principle of community engagement to inform corporate strategies towards green energy visions. This paper explores the quality of citizen involvement.