Sydney Australia's Green Sector Opportunity

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SYDNEY & NEW SOUTH WALES

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CLEAN Up iN NSW

I youre thinking about setting up a cleantech project,

or moving or expanding such a business in Australia,

talk to our business development agency, NSW Trade &

Investment. We can help with inormation or business

plans, benchmarking inormation, innovation programs

to support technology commercialisation, export

support programs, and much more.

Wiping TheSTaTe CleanHow New South Wales isast becoming the home o

Cleantech in Asia Pacifc.

When youve got the largestpopulation in Australia, itsnatural that you take cleanenergy seriously as youvealso got the largest energy

market in the country.

Its why were much more than just supporters

o new investment in clean technology, were

actively driving it orward.

Youll nd New South Wales (NSW) is home to a

range o leading clean energy and environmental

services companies a genuine hub o capability

and continuing innovation. A State that is ull o

opportunity and support or new cleantech

businesses, investment and ideas.

Were setting our sights on a cleaner, greener uture and we look orward to having you join us.


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TargeTing a greener TomorroWBy 2020 we want 20% o NSW electricity supply rom renewable sources.

About A$8 billion is spent on environmental goodsand services in NSW each year. NSW has appointeda Parliamentary Secretary or Renewable Energyand is developing a Renewable Energy Action Plan.

Six Renewable Energy Precincts have been

established across NSW to encourage renewable

energy development.

There is plenty e lse happening in NSW:

In 2010, hydropower accounted or 8% oelectricity generation; over 800 GWh o power

was generated rom landll gas and biowaste.

The states ethanol and biodiesel mandates

are encouraging the development o biomass

technologies and eedstocks.

In 2010, wind power contributed over 460 GWh;

over 8,000 MW o additional wind generation

capacity is in planning.

The Moree Solar Farm has been awarded

Australian Government unding or a 150 MW

solar photovoltaic power plant under the SolarFlagships program, with the NSW Government

pledging A$120 million.

Opportunities are being pursued to develop

Geothermal, Wave and Tidal Energy.

Ausgrids Smart Grid, Smart City project in

Newcastle, Sydney and Scone will help lead

advances in energy management and integration

o renewable energy into electricity transmission

and distribution networks, aided by A$100 million

in Australian Government unding.

A Waste and Environment Levy has been

introduced, with a recycling target o 66%

o solid waste by 2014.

We want 12% o Sydneys water recycled by 2015.

Were aiming or 4,000 GWh o annual electricitysavings by 2014, and have energy-eciency

training and unding programs or businesses,

communities and Government agencies.

The Building and Sustainability Index places energy

and water standards on new residential buildings

and the National Australian Built Environment

Rating Scheme rates building energy per ormance.

Large Government buildings are targeted or high

energy and water eciency ratings.

Environmental Upgrade Agreements in commercial

and large residential building retrots allow

equitable sharing o the resulting savings between

landlords, tenants and nanciers, through a

voluntary local council charge.


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Thats why NSW boasts world-class research and

development in clean energy, energy eciency and

environmental technology. Its helping lead the charge

towards a greener, cleaner environment. Theres a huge

number o initiatives underway within the State, all to

change the way we source and use energy and

ultimately transorm the way we live.

Take a look at some o the organisations and

initiatives at the oreront o our push towards

a cleaner, greener uture.

AUSTrALiAN SOLAr iNSTiTUTE

The $A100 million Australian Solar Institute [ASI],

based in Newcastle, was launched in 2009 to ast-track

solar research and development.

The ASI aims to drive collaborative, ocused research

and development that will have a major impact on the

eciency and cost-eectiveness o solar technologies.

It will also disseminate the results and learnings rom

solar research or the benet o the Australian andglobal solar communities and the Australian public,

and will act as a catalyst to champion Australias

leadership strengths in solar research and development.

To date, the ASI has helped und 13 R&D projects

at a cost o $A44.5 million in the areas o photovoltaics

and concentrating solar thermal.

www.australiansolarinstitute.com.au

CSirO ENErgY CENTrE

The CSIRO Energy Transormed Flagship, in Newcastle,

provides a ocal point or research into sustainableenergy and the environmental impacts o energy, as

well as research and development into environmentally

acceptable ossil uels.

It also incorporates an energy-generation suite

developed or eciency and to showcase

available technologies.

CSirOS NATiONALSOLAr ENErgY CENTrE

Also in Newcastle is CSIROs National Solar Energy

Centre (NSEC). Its currently developing solar

thermal technologies and is home to the largest highconcentration solar array in the Southern Hemisphere.

ENvirONENTAL BiOTECHNOLOgYCOOpErATivE rESEArCH CENTrE

The Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative Research

Centre at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney

develops advanced technologies based on biological

systems that improve eciency, and reduce or utilise

waste, to benet a wide range o industries as well

as the natural environment.

It concentrates its research and commercial eorts

in three core areas: biolm prevention and dispersal;

rapid in-eld microbial detection and control; and

bioprocesses (such as bioremediation and industrial

wastewater treatment).

www.ebcrc.com.au

NEWCASTLE iNSTiTUTE fOrENErgY AND rESOUrCES

The Newcastle Institute or Energy and Resources

(NIER) addresses national priorities in sustainability

and energy, producing a range o solutions or

sustainable production and energy use. NIER

is located at the ormer BHP-Billiton Newcastle

Research Laboratories, adjoining University o

Newcast les Callaghan campus. Collaborating with

national and international partners, NIER advances

research in clean energy production, energy eciency

and the minimisation o carbon emissions.

www.newcastle.edu.au/research/newcastle-institute-

or-energy-resources/

UNivErSiTY Of NEW SOUTH WALESSCHOOL Of pHOTOvOLTAiC ANDrENEWABLE ENErgY ENgiNEEriNg

The University o New South Wales [UNSW] School

o Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering is

internationally recognised or its research in the eld

o photovoltaics. It is ocusing on the key challenges

acing the eld o photovoltaics over the next 20 years,

as well as spin-o applications in microelectronics and

optoelectronics.

UNSWs solar cell technologies have been licensed

to solar cell makers around the world, including

Suntech-Power, BP Solar and Samsung.

www.pv.unsw.edu.au/research/advancedsilicon.asp

r&DS goT The green lighTHow were supporting cleantech research.

We know how important research is to discoveringnew technologies, and improving current ones.


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UNivErSiTY Of NEWCASTLEpriOriTY rESEArCH CENTrEfOr ENErgY

The PRCE brings together academics at the

University o Newcastle who have research interests

in the reduction o greenhouse gases, and in clean

and sustainable energy production. It aims to provide

new opportunities rom the interaction between

industry, government agencies and university

researchers interested in clean and sustainable energy.

www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/energy/

UNivErSiTY Of SYDNEYSydney University oers world-leading research

in solar thermal elec tricity, particularly solar materials

and solar ray development, such as designs or

evacuated absorber tubes, the rst solar steam cooker

with storage, a solar selective coating and solar hot

water designs, some o which have been patented

and commercialised in China.

UNivErSiTY Of WOLLONgONgAUSTrALiAN rESEArCH COUNCiL [ArC]CENTrE Of ExCELLENCE fOrELECTrOATEriALS SCiENCE

The new ARC Centre o Excellence or Electromaterials

Science brings together eminent scientists rom our

research organisations.

www.electromaterials.edu.au

The Intelligent Polymer Research Institute

(IPRI) The IPRI is renowned or its expertise

in the electrochemistry o organic conductors,

especially in the applications o articial muscles,

photovoltaics, batteries, and biomedical applications

The Institute or Superconducting and

Electronic Materials (ISEM) The ISEM explores

superconducting and electronic materials

including magnesium boride superconductors

and has a large program looking at new materials

or energy storage, including the design and

composition o batteries.


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green-Collar CorporaTeSHow our organisations are thinking green.

Our State plays host to a wide range o cleantechbusinesses, some o which are profled here.

ACqUAriE gENErATiON

www.macen.com.au

MacGen is engaged in the expansion o its solar

thermal energy project at Liddell Power Station in

the Hunter Valley, NSW. Novatec Solar has been

awarded the contract to build a new 9MWth solar

eld at Liddell, which will complement the existing

plant, a world rst integration o solar thermaltechnology with a traditional power station.

Construction o the 18,000 square metre solar

eld is expected to be completed by 2012.

ANiLDrA grOUp

www.manlda.com.au

This Group owns and operates ethanol distilleries at

Nowra and other locations in NSW. Manildras Nowra

distillery is the largest ethanol producer in Australia.

SiTA ENvirONENTAL SOLUTiONSwww.sta.com.au

SITA provides weekly services to over 43,000

commercial and industrial clients and more than three

million residents across Australia. SITAs services include

domestic, commercial and industrial waste collection;

waste assessments; resource recovery and recycling

options; processing o organic materials into compost;

renewable energy acilities; medical and hygiene

services; waste treatment; and product destruction.

In addition to its engineered landlls, recycling acilities

and transer stations, SITA has Australias largest rangeo advanced resource recovery technologies (ARRT)

which assist councils and companies to minimise

environmental impact, reduce costs and improve social

responsibility. SITA is Frost & Sullivans Asia Pacic 2009

Waste Management Company o the Year.

SNOWY HYDrO

www.snowyhydo.com.au

The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme is a

complex integrated water and hydro electric power

scheme, comprising 16 major dams, 7 major powerstations, a pumping station, 145 kms o inter-connected

trans-mountain tunnels and 80 km o aqueduct.

Snowy Hydro is Australias largest source o renewable

power, providing around 40% o all renewable energy

AgL

www.al.com.au

AGL, one o Australias major energy utilities,

is a leading integrated renewable energy company

and Australias largest private owner, operator and

developer o renewable generation assets. It has major

investments in hydro and wind, as well as ongoing

developments in key renewable areas, which includesolar, geothermal, biomass, bagasse and landll gas.

AGL also operates retail, merchant energy and

upstream gas businesses, and has over three

million customer accounts. AGL has been operating

in Australia or 170 years and was one o its rst

listed companies.

BLUgLASS

www.blulass.com.au

BluGlass is a leading innovator in energy eciency

lighting and is commercialising an exciting

semiconductor platorm technology primarily or

the LED and solar industries known as Remote Plasma

Chemical Vapour Deposition [RPCVD]. RPCVD has the

potential to be a lower cost, lower temperature, cleaner

and more scalable manuacturing process or use in the

production o ultra high eciency devices such as nex t

generation lighting technology, LEDs and high

eciency solar cells. BluGlass is now demonstrating the

commercial capability o its technology as it pursues

partnerships and sales to global manuacturing majors.

DELTA ELECTriCiTYwww.de.com.au

Delta Electricity is one o Australias largest elec tricity

generator with over 5,000 MW o installed capacity,

generating electricity rom sources including coal, gas,

hydro and biomass. Delta is ocusing considerable

investment into improving its sustainability with key

initiatives including the new low emission Colongra gas

turbine acility, a pilot project with CSIRO to remove

CO2 rom power station fue gases; unding a Chair

o Sustainable Energy Development at the University

o Sydney; reduction o water use and improved waterrecycling at all power plants; promotion o coal ash

or use in cement and concrete to reduce greenhouse

emissions; and trialling the potential o bio-energy uels

like mallee eucalypt to be harvested and processed or

co-ring with coal to generate e lectricity.


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Images courtesy of Sydney Water and CSIRO

that is available to the National Electricity Market, aswell as providing ast response energy to power the

peak demands o Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane,

Adelaide and Canberra.

SYDNEY WATEr

www.sydneywate.com.au

Cronulla Sewage Treatment Biogas Project

This is a Biogas renewable cogeneration acility

located in Cronulla, NSW. Sewage wastewater is

treated aerobically or anaerobically. The anaerobic

process produces methane, which is collected and

used to generate renewable power to meet

approximately 10 per cent o the power requirements

o the Cronulla Treatment Plant.

Malabar Cogeneration Facility

This acility located in Malabar, NSW uses recovered

heat rom cogeneration to heat raw sewage sludge

eed to digesters. Digested sludge is de-watered and

used or agricultural biosolids. Digester gas is burnt

in engines. The electricity produced is treated as

green power and is consumed onsite or the

sewage treatment plant.

THE firE COpANY

www.ecosmate.com

Based in Mona Vale, NSW, The Fire Company

is a highly innovative designer and manuacturer

o bioethanol replaces which it exports to the world.

Ecosmart res are uelled by eco-riendly denatured

ethanol, a renewable, clean-burning liquid uel

derived rom agricultural and orestry products.

The product burns with a natural fame, and radiates

enough heat to warm the average living space with

over 90 per cent uel eciency. There is no smoke or

harmul emissions so theres no need or a chimney,

fue, vent or utility connection.

vEOLiA ENvirONENTAL SErviCESAND TrANSpACifiC iNDUSTriES grOUp

www.eathowe.com.au

A joint venture between Veolia Environmental

Services and Transpacic Industries Group is all

about producing electricity rom ood waste. Their

EarthPower acility can produce enough electricity

to power around 2,500 homes when operating at

capacity, saving approximately 90,000 tonnes o

greenhouse gas emissions and producing granulated

organic ertiliser just rom ood waste.

viSY pApEr

www.sy.com.au

Visy is a pr ivately-owned packaging, paper and

recycling company. It operates a 17,000kW power

plant at its Tumut Krat Mill in NSW, which uses local

plantation timber sawmill residues and pulp wood

materials, supplemented by domestic and commercial

wastepaper to generate green energy on-site.

WSN

www.wsn.com.au

Now owned by SITA Environmental Solutions, WSN

provides environmental services to the Greater Sydney

area and operates the Eastern Creek Alternative Waste

Technology acility or processing household waste.

Eastern Creek uses the UR-3R process, designed to

capture up to 100% o biogas produced.


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