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Publication - General

Front cover of EFF final report.

The heat is on: the future of energy in Australia - PART ONE

The Energy Futures Forum is pleased to announce the release of this 120-page final report. (Part One, 31 pages)

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After two years of this experimental project the Energy Futures Forum has released its 120-page final report titled The heat is on: the future of energy in Australia.

PART ONE (31-pages) of the report is can be downloaded here and has the following sections:

Foreword
Preface
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: A pressing conversation: the Energy Futures Forum.

The other parts are:

Australia’s energy future will be created from changes originating outside and within the energy sector, driven by multiple institutions, governments, organisations, businesses and private citizens.

Recognising this, CSIRO created the concept of the Energy Futures Forum (EFF) in 2003 as a means of engaging in developing and assessing pathways for the future of energy in Australia and, in doing so, consider the implications for our nation’s future. It included a wide set of stakeholders from the energy and transport sectors:

energy suppliers
generators
distributors
major energy end-users
financiers
researchers
government and community representatives.

The heat is on: the future of energy in Australia report is supported by five separate reports outlining the major bodies of research undertaken as part of the project:

Find out more about The Energy Futures Forum.