Program Guidelines: Generator Efficiency Standards
A program to encourage businesses using fossil fuels for power generation to achieve best practice in generating power and reduce greenhouse emissions
July 2000
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Abstract
This report titled Program Guidelines: Generator Efficiency Standards is one in a set of two guidelines outlining the implementation parameters for the Efficiency Standards for Power Generation (referred to as Generator Efficiency Standards or GES) measure.
GES is one of the key energy measures announced in the Prime Minister's 1997 climate change statement, Safeguarding the Future: Australia's Response to Climate Change and aims to encourage businesses to "achieve movement towards best practice" generation performance and, as a result, reduce greenhouse emissions. It was endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments in 1998 and subsequently incorporated into the National Greenhouse Strategy.
These guidelines were developed following extensive consultation with industry, electricity users and the wider community and was publicly released in July 2000. It is complemented by a second set of guidelines titled Technical Guidelines: Generator Efficiency Standards that deals with the more technical aspects of the program.
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