

- Title
QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Database
Senate Hansard
- Date
30-08-2004
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
40
- Electorate
Tasmania
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- Page
26773
- Party
AG
- Presenter
- Status
Final
- Question No.
3079
- Questioner
Brown, Sen Bob
- Responder
Hill, Sen Robert
- Speaker
- Stage
Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Type
- Context
Answers to Questions on Notice
- System Id
chamber/hansards/2004-08-30/0185
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Senator Brown
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 15 July 2004:
With reference to the answer to question on notice no. 2848 (Senate Hansard, 16 June 2004, p. 24002): For each of the projects listed in annex A of the answer, what kind of energy or energy technology is involved.
Senator Hill (Minister for Defence)
—The attached answer has been provided by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the honourable senator's question:
Attachment A
AUSAID ASSISTANCE FOR ENERGY RELATED PROJECTS IN THE PACIFIC
TYPE OF ENERGY | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
COUNTRY | TITLE | AIM | Energy | Energy technology |
Cook Islands | Aitutaki Wind Energy Monitoring Station | To triawind-powered electrical generation to develop options for reduced dependency on fossil fuels | Wind | Windmills |
Cook Islands | Manihiki Power Upgrading Project | To provide reliable electricity generation and distribution systems on the island of Manihiki | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Cook Islands | Penrhyn Electrical Power Upgrade Project | To upgrade the electrical system in Omoka and Te Tautua, to enable current and future demand to be met in an economically sustainable way, while ensuring an adequate level of reliability and system performance. | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Kiribati | Public Utilities Power Board Project Phases I and II | Phase I aimed to improve the reliability of the electricity generating capacity in South Tarawa. Phase II aims to secure and maintain a safe and reliable power supply on South Tarawa by improving the maintenance of and response to breakdowns in the current power systems. | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Nauru | Nauru Package of Additional Assistance - Power Infrastructure | To provide essential power supplies on Nauru through the support and supplementation of the existing power infrastructure, including the provision of diesel fuel and lubricants for power supply. | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Niue | Electrical Engineer support through Pacific Technical Assistance Program | To provide governance capacity assistance, human resources training and basic infrastructure support | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Niue | Niue Hospital | To provide an emergency generator for Niue Hospital | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
SolomonIslands | Solomon Islands Electricity Authority (SIEA) Generator Repairs | To make urgent repairs to a main generator servicing Honiara | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
SolomonIslands | Strengthened Assistance - Electricity | To provide urgent restoration and normalisation of SIEA's power supplies for Honiara | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
SolomonIslands | Village First: Light up the Future | To increase local capacity to manage and operate village electrification systems. | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
SolomonIslands | Integrated Community Development Energy Supply | To establish a micro-hydro electricity generating scheme, to be fully owned, maintained and operated by the local community management structure, as the key element in the Bulelavata integrated community development plan | Water | Micro-hydro electricity generating system |
Tonga | Small Grants Scheme - Standby generator for Niu'ui Hospital, Hihifo, Ha'apai | To ensure a reliable constant supply of electricity. Ensure that potency of vaccine are maintained through refrigeration. Ensure that night-time operations and deliveries are conducted in a fully lit environment. | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Tonga | Small Grants Scheme - Generator for Tonga Development Bank (TDB) & Central Planning Department (CPD), Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu | To ensure reliable electricity for the offices of TDB and CPD, that important work keyed into the computer is not lost and that staff are able to perform their jobs even when the main supply of electricity is turned off. | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Tonga | Ha'apai Outer Islands Electrification Project | To design and install appropriate electricity infrastructure, and to facilitate institutional arrangements that will ensure the long-term sustainable operation of that infrastructure. | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Tuvalu | Incountry training program for Tuvalu Electricity Corporation (TEC) | To provide training for the TEC in relation to Australian Standard Association Wiring Regulations 3000 for Electricians, ASA Wiring Standards, power generator for Vaitupu, power transmission and control, workplace safety, electrical generator maintenance and industrial electronics | Diesel | Diesel Powered Generators |
Regional and Multicountry Projects | ||||
PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu | Village First Program | To identify and build the local capacity to deliver energy infrastructure and services for rural communities. | Water | Micro-hydro electricity generating system |
Cook Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands | Renewable energy | To demonstrate the viability of renewable energy technologies in the region. | Solar and wind | Solar technology: Tonga, Vanuatu, Marshal Islands. Wind technology: Cook Islands |