Australia Yearbook - 2001

702 Year Book Australia 2001
18.14 TOTAL ENERGY SUPPLY, Australia
1977–78 1982–83 1987–88
1992–93
1997–98
PJ
PJ
PJ
PJ
PJ
Energy production
Black coal 1 902.6 2 658.4 3 610.5 4 778.0 5 885.0
Brown coal 297.4 329.4 424.9 466.8 631.6
Wood 80.9 85.1 90.6 104.7 109.7
Bagasse 68.3 71.9 73.9 78.0 112.1
Crude oil and ORF(a) 938.7 816.6 1 156.9 1 136.0 1 256.6
Petroleum products(b) 77.3 77.1 104.0 100.1 117.6
Natural gas 283.1 466.2 610.5 983.1 1 272.0
Hydro-electricity 52.0 46.5 53.9 61.0 58.2
Solar energy 0.4 1.6 2.4 2.4 3.7
Uranium 234.1 2 177.3 1 970.7 1 270.9 2 724.6
Total energy production 3 934.7 6 730.1 8 098.3 8 981.0 12 171.0
Imports of energy products
Crude oil and ORF 434.0 455.9 370.6 751.6 968.1
Petroleum products 158.5 101.7 124.8 108.7 115.4
Total imports of energy ptoducts 592.5 557.6 495.4 860.3 1 083.8
Change in stocks 311.4 –280.9 509.5 –176.0 412.2
Total energy supply 4 838.8 7 006.9 9 103.2 9 665.3 13 666.7
(a) Oil refinery feedstock. (b) Includes naturally occurring LPG.
Source: Unpublished data, ABARE.
The renewable energy initiative, set in 1997 by
the Prime Minister’s Statement Safeguarding the
Future: Australia’s response to climate change,
is a mandatory target for electricity retailers and
large electricity purchasers to source an
additional 2% of their electricity from renewable
or specified waste product energy sources by
2010. The main objectives of this policy are to
accelerate development of renewable energy
sources in order to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and to provide the impetus for
establishing a commercially competitive
renewable energy industry.
Over the two decades prior to 1997–98, the
estimated contribution to Australia’s energy
consumption from renewable sources increased
by 39%, from 202 PJ in 1977–78 to 281 PJ in
1997–98. However, as a proportion of Australia’s
total energy consumption, the contribution
declined slightly, from 7% to 6%. Over those
two decades the proportion of renewable energy
derived from wood changed only slightly, while
that from bagasse increased by 6 percentage
points; hydro-electricity’s share decreased by
6 percentage points (graph 18.15).
18.15 AUSTRALIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION, Proportion
by Source—1977–78 and 1997–98
Bagasse
Wood
Hydro-electricity
Solar
1997–98
1977–78
0 10 20 30 40 50
%
Source: Australian Energy: Market Developments and Projections to 2014–15 (ABARE).