Guidelines to Best Planning Practices
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.
Engineering Climate Resilience
The electricity system is witnessing increasing pressure from climate change. What is Australia doing about it? It is clear that policy makers need to fulfil a critical role in building resilient electricity systems by adopting effective policy measures that can prevent a potential 'market failure'
Engineering Bushfire Resilience – Best Practice Approach to Transmission Line Routing
Energy Grid Alliance have developed a paper that focuses on Engineering Bushfire Resilience - Best Practice Approach to Transmission Line Routing. This paper recommends that good engineering design will ensure any new infrastructure route does not lead to unsustainable deterioration in grid resilience.
Best Practices in Energy Transmission Line Routing to Avoid Habitat Fragmentation
Energy Grid Alliance have provided a submission to energy transmission stakeholders with an emphasis on Best Practices in Energy Transmission Line Routing to Avoid Habitat Fragmentation.
Minimising Environmental Effects of Energy Transmission Networks
Feedback is sought from community and industry stakeholders to develop consistent investment assessment framework to facilitate early identification of project risks and potential impacts. Written submissions to the Discussion Paper closed midnight, 30 August 2021.
Is Victoria ready to design resilience into the energy grid?
As Victoria's transmission network develops to accommodate multiple major new renewable energy projects, the question has to be asked; is Victoria ready to design resilience into the energy grid?
National Electricity (Victoria) Amendment Bill 2020
The Bill generally amends the NEVA to enable the Minister, by Order, to modify or disallow certain regulatory requirements that apply under the NEL and NER to specified augmentations of the Victorian declared transmission system.
Energy Network Regulatory Framework
The safety of the Victorian electricity networks is governed by the Electricity Safety Act 1998 (the Act) and relevant regulations, under which the electricity network businesses must adhere to the following...
Prudent Avoidance Global Setback Distances
The World Health Organization recommends that countries adopt prudent avoidance guidelines established by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) or the International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES).
High-voltage Transmission Line Setback Policy Guidelines
Feedback was sought from community and industry stakeholders on recommended setbacks identified in the Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Energy Transmission Discussion Paper. The purpose of this paper is to provide framework and planning guidelines for the establishment of new large-scale energy transmission projects.
Planning Scheme
Planning schemes are made up of maps and ordinance. The ordinance are the policies and written clauses and the maps depict where the zones and overlays apply within the planning scheme area.
Approach to site layout and design
Taking account of the different characteristics of the essential elements of overhead lines, an approach to site layout and design should be developed based on two primary aims,
Strategic Route Selection
The strategic selection of any new electricity transmission line route will be a balance of all the various factors or constraints which have to be taken into account.
Planning and amenity aspects of high voltage electricity transmission lines
It is important that those leading their development (proponents) undertake careful planning, design and stakeholder engagement to build and maintain the social licence to operate throughout the life of the project.
Renewable Energy Zones and Best Planning Practices
The Andrew’s Government should halt the ongoing construction of overhead transmission infrastructure and consider viable alternatives that are more sensitive to rural communities and the environment.