Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2018-10-02

Research into a new export industry to deliver cheap, clean energy for Australia and the region has received $10 million in funding as part of The Australian National University’s Grand Challenges program.

The Grand Challenge Scheme invests in transformative research to make the impossible possible.  In its second year, the scheme seeks to bring new perspectives to the most pressing challenges facing society. 

The Zero-Carbon for Energy for the Asia-Pacific project will catalyse the development of a major renewable energy export industry from the ground up: building the infrastructure, exploring the trade relationships, developing the policy frameworks to get Australia’s abundant renewable energy resources cheaply and reliably to our Asia-Pacific neighbours. 

It will be developed under two key themes, by exporting Australian renewable electricity, and the creation of renewable electricity capability in the Asia-Pacific and by the development of zero-carbon embedded energy products made using Australian renewable energy.