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OzEcco Today 2009 • Transition to a low carbon economy • Energy security….mainly transport • Economic growth……enough Infrastructure • Ecological refurbishment • Whole economy resilience • Physical affluence…..enough • National debt

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OzEcco Today 2009• Transition to a low carbon economy

• Energy security….mainly transport• Economic growth……enough• Infrastructure• Ecological refurbishment• Whole economy resilience• Physical affluence…..enough• National debt• Balance of trade

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OzEcco Today 2009• Transition to a low carbon economy

• Energy security….mainly transport• Economic growth……enough• Infrastructure• Ecological refurbishment• Whole economy resilience• Physical affluence…..enough• National debt• Balance of trade

Solutions not

Problems

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Context for Work circa 1993• Future human population levels • Effect on land/water/air/biodiversity and natural amenity (environmental sectors)

• Humans effect everything….thus the meaning of life

• Search for a science based approach to integration (unpopular….not science)

• Economic ‘equilibrium’ models the norm

• But some ‘policy’ interest and support (until the results started to emerge)

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ECONOMICEFFICIENCY

SOCIAL EQUITYENVIRONMENTALQUALITY

BAU

EconomicGrowth

ConservativeDevelopment

PostMaterialism

OzEcco Energy Flows Model

HMC Production & Use

Agriculture & ForestryMining

Services

HousingIndustry

CapitalStock

Industry

IndustrialOutput

Investment inOther SectorsReinvestment

in Industry Materialstandard of

Living

AvailableHMC International

Trade

Sector-specificActivities

+

-

+

++ +

(+)

Australian Stocks and Flows FrameworkHouseholds

ASFF

Demography

Materials & Energy

Land Resources

Water Resources

Air Resources

Balance of Trade Material Resources

Material Conversion

Artefacts /Infrastructure

Lifestyle

Population

Working population

Consumption

Services

Building Space

Transportation

Construction Equipment

Recycling

Processing & Assembly

Power Generation

Agriculture

Forestry

Fisheries

Mining

QUALITATIVEScenarios

+ BOOKS/Conferences

QUANTITATIVEModels

Aggregated & top down

Highly dis-aggregated & bottom up

SEPARATING Values from Data Analysis

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OzEcco Energy Flows Model

HMC Production & Use

Agriculture & Forestry

Mining

Services

HousingIndustry

CapitalStock

Industry

IndustrialOutput

Investment inOther SectorsReinvestment

in Industry Materialstandard of

Living

AvailableHMC International

Trade

Sector-specificActivities

+

-

+

++ +

(+)

• Redevelop in Vensim• Fossil electricity • CCS• Renewables• Nuclear• Transport…gas and shale oil• Transport…methanol/DME and

ethanol• Continental land account• Continental water accounting• Detailed forestry sector• Sovereign wealth fund to

control rebound• Aggregate indicators

OzEcco Developments: Aggregated and top-down and also dollar/energy translation

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Australian Stocks and Flows Framework

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Two Policy Worlds:--Renewable energy--Conventional wisdom

Study Rationale• Oil replacement• Regional enterprise• Refurbish farming systems• Biodiversity augmentation• Salinity control• Carbon neutrality• Vital third landuse adding to

animals and crops• Drought resilient

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The Renewables Transition ‘Base Case’ STOCKS

$74,000 billion

Base Case Stocks Accumulated 2006-2051

0

10,000

20,000

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GDP-$billion CO2- tonnesmillion

Capital Stocks-PJ embodied

Future Fund-$ billion

PhysicalAffluence-GJ/capita

29 billion tonnes

Twice today’s level

$1,000 billion

7,200 GJ/capita =

60 msc

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90% Shale Oil Scenarios

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Base Case

90% Shale R

90% Shale R+TE

90% Shale IS

90% Shale IS+TE

90% Natural Gas Scenarios

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Base Case

90% Gas

90%Gas + LE

90%Gas + LE/TE

Fossil Oil ReplacersShale

CNG

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Biofuel Oil Replacers

90% Ethanol Scenarios

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Base Case

90% Crop

90% Ligno

90% Thermo

90% Methanol Scenarios

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Headline Indicators

Base Case

90% Meth

90%M +TE

90%M +ZE

90%M+TE/ZE

Ethanol

Methanol/DME

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Renewable Electricity Transitioncomposition of electricity delivered

Proportional Source of Electricity Production by Technology Type: 80% Renewable Electricity

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031 2041 2051

Simulation Period

Gig

aw

att

Ho

urs

EPWIN

EPSTH

EPSPV

EPNUC

EPHYD

EPGST

EPGCC

EPFCL

EPCST

EPCCC

EPBIO

EPBCS

Brown C

Black C

Wind

Coal CC

Gas CC

Hydro

Gas T

Solar T

Biomass

Solar PV

Source of Electricity Production in Gigawatt Hours by Technology Type: Base Case

0%

20%

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1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031 2041 2051

Simulation Period

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EPGST

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EPFCL

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Brown C

Black C

Wind

Gas CCCoal CC

Gas CC

Base Case 80% Renewables

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0

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80% Renewable Electricity

Base Case

80% Renewable

Renewable Electricity Transition

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Best Conventional Transitioncomposition of electricity delivered

Base Case 90% Advanced Generation

Proportional Source of Electricity Production by Technology Type: Best Conventional

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1981 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031 2041 2051

Simulation Period

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EPHYD

EPGST

EPGCC

EPFCL

EPCST

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EPBIO

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Brown C

Black C

Wind

Coal CC

Gas CC

Hydro

Gas T

Biomass

Fuel Cell

NuclearSource of Electricity Production in Gigawatt Hours by

Technology Type: Base Case

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EPFCL

EPCST

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EPBIO

EPBCS

Brown C

Black C

Wind

Gas CCCoal CC

Gas CC

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90% Advanced Conventional Electricity

Base Case

90% Adv Elect

Best Conventional Transition

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Carbon Sequestration and Storage

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80% CCS in Thermal Coal and Advanced Fossil

Base Case

CCS in Base Case

Advanced Fossil

CCS in Adv Foss

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Nuclear with Safeguards

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Physical Affluence

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30 % and 60% Nuclear Power

Base Case

30% Nuclear

60% Nuclear

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Full Renewables TransitionLow carbon electricity and transport fuels

Source: Foran… ‘Powerful Choices’ Study

Base Case, Normal Renewables and Low-Growth Renewables

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Mil

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Base Case

Renewables

Low Growth

A lowgrowtheconomy

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Issues: Philosophical, Technical and Computational

• Macro/macro scales• Efficiency, rebound, sovereign wealth funds

• Growth, no-growth, development• Globalised trade and balance of payments (is there no end to it?)

• Communication….specific technical issues e.g. CCS

• Communication….the big ideas