The clock is ticking as Australia takes it first steps towards a renewable, distributed and integrated energy system. With a federal mandate for 20 per cent renewable electricity by 2020 through the recently enhanced Renewable Energy Target (RET), as well as a target for reduction of green house gas emissions of 5 per cent below 2000 emission level by 2020, , the success of these measures will be determined by the adoption rates of clean energy production, energy efficiency technolgies, and smart grid technologies. The RET, the 100 million dollars Smart Grid, Smart City project, smart meter rollouts as well as other independent trials will have major implications on the energy network infrastructure and distributed load management in the coming decades. As the clock ticks and time runs out, government frameworks incentivising energy investment will likely prove crucial in hastening the speed of renewable uptake.
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