This report explores the policy implications of the large-scale development of geothermal energy resources and their impact on water quality and availability. • Australia could potentially produce energy from a variety of geothermal systems including: non-conventional engineered geothermal systems (EGS) hot sedimentary aquifer (HSA) developments shallow systems such as low enthalpy aquifers ground source heat...

This paper develops and applies a stochastic simulation model in order to assess the effect of renewable technologies on the financial risk and cost of electricity supply in Fiji. In recent years, renewable energy technologies have been advocated in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific as a risk-mitigation measure against oil price volatility...

This paper applies a multi-sector dynamic computable general equilibrium model to estimate the impacts of the carbon-based border tax adjustments implemented by US and EU on China’s sectoral carbon emissions.

This report sets out the findings of the technology assessments and reviews the implications for government policy in terms of developing and deploying low emissions electricity technology. An accompanying publication: No easy choices: which way to Australia's energy future – Technology Analysis, available on the Grattan Institute, website, assesses each of the seven low emissions...

Australia’s strategy for managing national security is set out in a number of complex and interrelated policy documents that span multiple agencies. This paper summarises key parts of the federal critical infrastructure protection policy trajectory in the period 1978 – 2010. The research was designed to answer the following questions: 1. How has Australia’s federal...