CityTalks 2010 – Sydney’s energy revolution: Building a low-carbon city, 25 October 2010

At this City Talk Allan Jones MBE will launch the City of Sydney’s green infrastructure plan which will deliver an innovative city-wide decentralised energy, water and waste system. The plan will position Sydney as a global environmental leader energised by local low and zero carbon and renewable energy sources. Professor Tim Flannery will introduce the City Talk with a message for cities to take urgent action on climate change and Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP will talk about how local government must play a key role changing the way we think about energy, water and waste. A panel discussion will follow with David Holden, Climate Strategist–Urban Planning, Kinesis, Robert Murray-Leach, CEO, Energy Efficiency Council and Peter Harcus, Manager Gas Network Development, Jemena Gas Networks (NSW) and Neil Gordon, Manager, Demand Management, Energy Australia.

Two years ago Allan Jones MBE, then CEO of the London Climate Change Agency, spoke at a City Talk about the urgent need to rethink the way our cities use energy. Allan explained how he introduced trigeneration and renewable energy to the borough of Woking, essentially removing its reliance on electricity from UK’s centralised grid. Whilst centralised electricity grids are powered by coal, technology such as trigeneration plants use natural and renewable gases to produce electricity and to heat and cool buildings. Now working at the City of Sydney, Allan is charged with reducing Sydney’s reliance on coal-fired energy, introducing trigeneration, renewable energy and reusing water and waste.

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