Role of Australia's Government Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development

In Australia, carbon emissions contribute to the problem of global warming and climate change worsening. Therefore, people want to move to a more sustainable energy future, because renewable energy is the only valid method to reduce emissions. But it is very difficult to widely use renewable energy since this transition have to face numerous barriers. This essay will argue that adopting renewable energy cannot be overcome due to lack of financial and political barriers.

Most of the energy that we use comes from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal that provide electricity and gas to power our growing energy needs. These fossil fuels, currently providing most of our home energy needs are finite resources, which mean that, they will eventually run out. Furthermore, the world’s population is growing rapidly. Countries are becoming more industrialised and are using notable amount of energy. Individuals are consuming nearly twice as much as energy as they were using 30 years ago. In Australia itself, the total amount of energy consumed by households has increased over the past two decades and is forecast to increase. This could be due to the dependence of our standard of living on easily available energy. Between

The time has come, we’re running out of fossil fuels and we need an alternative. That is where renewable energy comes in; The best part about it is that it is renewable so it will always be available to us, and we can acquire this energy through solar, water, and wind power. There is a lot of controversy as to whether we should rely on renewable energy, because some say it is not cost effective. However renewable energy can pay for itself, is available nearly everywhere through various methods of obtaining it, provides numerous amount of jobs and economical benefits, and it will not harm our environment.

Renewable is which never runs out or infinitely available in nature. Energy is freely available in environment. We can notice so many naturally available energy resources in the environment like wind, solar, biomass, water, natural gas etc. Renewable resources can be easily replaced or regenerated. Renewable energy can be used for transportation fuels, power generation and where all the energy resources can be used in the generation of electric power. For direct heating and cooking geothermal steam can be used. Energy resources like solar and biomass are used for heating water and space. The

With the rise of nonrenewable fuels prices and the estimated decline of availability in the not so distant future it is very clear that the only answer to this problem is to implement the use of renewable resources. Renewable resources are very versatile and can reduce pollution of the environment and can in the long

Recently, a report by REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) reported two facts that set the stage for the growth of green energy. First, in 2015, the global economy experienced the largest annual increase of renewable energy; second, developing economies spent more than developed countries on increasing their use of green energy. Another notable fact to mention is that the substantial increase in green energy

Nowadays, there are two fastest growing sources of renewable energy which are wind and solar that produce intermittent supplies of energy. People tend to demand from energy more than before. Renewable energy in Australia deals with efforts being made in Australia to quantify and expand renewable energy, which includes electricity, transport fuels and thermal energy. Total renewable energy consumption in Australia in 2015 was 346 Joules(PJ), representing 5.9% of Australia's total energy consumption.(2015 Australian Energy Statistics) This is an increase of 1.6% from 2011–12 levels (265 PJ), representing 4.3% of Australia's total energy consumption.(2013 Australian Energy Update) The energy consumption increases is not only due to the rate

Renewable energy is considered an environmental friendly way of producing energy; according to http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/index/tech.html, “in contrast, the many types of renewable energy resources-such as wind and solar energy-are constantly replenished and will never

Specific Speech Goal: Show the importance on why we should change our ways and convert to renewable energy.

The path to renewables in Australia in recent times has been met with a somewhat contentious debate. In a time where “No challenge poses a greater threat to our future than a changing climate.”(Barack Obama, August 3, 2015) the plight of Renewables is of more importance than ever in our history as a pillar on to which our highly carbon emitting society must rest, if we ever seek to reduce the impact on our climate both government and individuals must seek out and adhere to serious carbon abatement strategies. The idea of previous successful government involvement in the renewable energy industry through regulation and initiatives may elude the everyday modern Australian, marred with controversial schemes, which in hind sight were rolled out to fast without sufficient regulations has seen relatively recent schemes reduced or even thrown out. However, it is best to remind ourselves that some of Australia’s rite of passage as a nation were through Renewable energy projects. Examples of this such as the Snowy Hydro Scheme which at the time was named as one of the civil engineering wonders of the modern world and the White Cliff Solar Power Station which can be seen as a world first solar energy provider.

Due to the escalation in prices of the conventional sources of energy such as fossil and nuclear fuels and their harmful effects on the environment, there is a strong motivation to develop and utilize an alternative energy resources such as solar, wind, hydro and geothermal sources... etc cite{Karki2001}- cite{Fialho2015}-cite{Zhou2007}. In 2014, renewable energy overall expanded significantly in terms

“Renewable resources have a high development cost it costs lots of money to develop there stations in research and manufacturing the components needs so that they become successful.” Which is stated in the article of pros and cons of renewable resources. Renewable resources also do not produce in large quantities, so if we were to use renewable resources for energy we would have to reduce our energy consumption. Renewable resources are also vulnerable, almost all of the renewable resources are vulnerable to weather such as rain, snow, and cloudy days.

In conclusion, Australia must move away from coal to renewable energies, in order to meet the renewable energy target to control the climate change and also to generate electricity more efficient. Despite the fact that closing coal power stations would be a significant disadvantage for Australia, as coal is one of the biggest potential that Australia has. However, renewable energies such as solar, wave and geothermal would bring their own advantages, such as cost, environmental benefits and the job opportunities, which are more necessary that using the coal potential. Therefore, the coal power stations must be closed immediately.

During the construction of sustainable building, the use of renewable energy can be a significant issue. Compared to conventional energy, renewable energy can benefit from many aspects.

Energy is the most outstanding ingredient for socio-economic growth world-wide. It exists in various forms like mechanical, chemical, electrical, heat, light etc. There is minimum amount of energy required for life sustainability. Most especially from the food we eat but fuel energy is needed in cooking and in some climate, for heating houses. Research has shown that in 2008 for instance, the world wide consumption rate of energy was estimated at 500 exajoules per year (EJ)/y. The importance of an energy system is to secure energy service in the industrial, transport, house hold and service sectors of the economy. Energy, invariably is the fulcrum of growth of national economies. Fossil fuels are carriers of hydrocarbon substances. They include coal, crude oil, and natural gas. Its consumption depletes at any rate. Typically, the looming energy crisis is sequel to consuming these fossil fuels at a rate that is practically unsustainable. Besides, when consumed, fossil fuels upset the natural balance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, giving rise to various environmental tipping point. Effects of this carbon dioxide natural imbalance has its long term contribution to global warming and green house effect. Conversely, renewable energy systems are resources available on cyclic basis and include solar, hydro, wind, tidal, wave, geothermal and biodegradable biomass (fuelwood, animal and crop residues, energy crops etc). They do not deplete on consumption. The application of