Neighbourhood energy to slash greenhouse gases

  • 17/01/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Australian households and industries could produce their onw clean, green electricity, or draw it from a nearby source, under a new concept for electricity distribution in Australia.CSIRO's Energy Sector plans to establish a Centre for Distributed Energy and Power that will focus on research and development and marketing to support smaller, locatlised energy sustems - systems that could slash Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by more than half.