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Sydney streaks ahead on distributed energy
Sydney City Council launched its Decentralised Energy Trigeneration Masterplan last week, a key plank in its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the municipal area by 70% below 2006 levels by 2030. See MEFL's fact sheet for some background information about decentralised energy.
Under the Masterplan, 65% of central Sydney's commercial floor space, 50% of all retail floor space and 30% of all residential floor space would be connected to low emissions tri-generation energy supply, transforming these high energy and carbon intense areas into 'low carbon infrastructure zones'. These buildings would also receive heating and cooling services, produced by capturing the waste heat from electricity production, from the same tri-generation plants.
