A crumbling grid: Why we need urgent resilience planning
A crumbling grid calls for urgent resilience planning. Discover how transmission can pave the way for a clean energy future with the right solutions deployed.
Best practice evidence-based engagement
Evidence-based engagement enhances credibility, legitimacy, transparency, informed decision-making, and stakeholder participation. These factors contribute to building trust, acquiring social license, and ensuring the successful implementation of projects or initiatives.
Best Practice Community Engagement for Transmission
For communities potentially impacted by transmission development, it’s important to ask where any proposed engagement sits on the IAP2 Spectrum to ensure the engagement process meets your needs. The historical approach of ‘decide, announce, defend’ must be abandoned and replaced with an approach of “involve and collaborate”.
Community-first Framework for Electricity Transmission Development
A community-first framework would better integrate land use considerations, environmental impacts, and community views into the planning process. Community-first framework, combined with a new set of rules, policy and planning instruments will produce more consistent, defensible, and transparent electricity transmission routing decisions.
Acquiring Social Licence for Electricity Transmission
'Acquiring Social Licence for Electricity Transmission' is an important policy paper that advocates for much-needed reform and makes recommendations to better facilitate delivery of electricity transmission projects. Unless addressed, the current framework will continue to erode opportunities to acquire social licence.
Understanding External Costs of Overhead Electricity Transmission
External costs should be considered in transmission planning to rebalance the true benefits, this will lead to greater market efficiency and environmental sustainability. The evaluation of the external costs could be of great help during the cost-benefit analysis, allowing the negative impacts to be considered in the process to identify the optimal transmission development path.
Engineering Victoria’s Future Electricity Grid
The transition to renewable energy generation must be harmonised with broader environmental goals to enable the exploitation of co-benefits and minimise negative socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Underground HVDC options should be deployed, using existing rights-of-way where technically feasible.
Best Practice Approach for Protection of Wedge-tailed Eagles in Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Development
The transition to renewable energy generation in the name of climate change must not degrade the environment and biodiversity we are striving to protect. It is critical that electricity network planners seriously consider Wedge-tailed Eagle nesting, territory and habitat requirements.
Social Licence – the key to electricity network development in Australia
It is time to use the best information available by engaging with landholders and communities to inform infrastructure planning and to strive for those solutions that are high performers on energy supply, social, economic and conservation impact.
Public Policy and Electricity Transmission Planning
We cannot afford to approach the transition to renewable energy the same way we rolled out large-scale transmission lines four decades ago. It is no longer acceptable to bulldoze a path from A to B and string overhead lines, simply because it's cheaper.