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Welcome to our energy fact sheets. Here you will find information about many different energy topics and issues including safety, history, energy resources, energy efficiency and the environment.
This fact sheet will address the following issues - related to safety around electricity and covers water, trees, electric shock, substations, appliances and plugs and power lines.
This fact sheet will address the following issues– kinetic energy and its different forms; potential energy and its different forms; non-renewable and renewable energy sources; Australian energy demand and supply; and energy units, prefixes and conversions.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – the origins of electricity and its development; electricity generation and technology; the transmission and distribution of electricity; the growth of electricity in Western Australia; the state’s major metropolitan and regional power stations; and underground power supplies in Western Australia.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – the origins of coal; the main coal types; the historical development of coal supplies; the advantages and disadvantages of electricity generation from coal; world demand and supply of coal; the historical development of coal supplies in Australia; Western Australia’s use of coal for electricity generation; Verve Energy's major coal-fired power stations and the current focus to minimise their environmental impact.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – solar power as a form of radiant energy; the growing development of solar technologies; flat plate collectors; evacuated tube collectors; parabolic dishes; photovoltaic (PV) devices; Kalbarri Photovoltaic system; parabolic troughs; thermal blankets; solar thermal power; solar ponds; and “power towers”.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – wind power as a form of motion energy; the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy; the development of windmills; the use of wind turbines for electricity generation; wind turbine types; how modern wind turbines work; wind energy around the world, Australia and Western Australia; and Verve Energy's major wind energy projects.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – water energy as a form of kinetic, thermal and mechanical energy; the history of river-based energy; hydro-electric power stations; water turbine types; the advantages and disadvantages of a hydro-electric plant; hydro-electricity around Australia and Western Australia; pumped storage schemes; wave energy; and tidal energy.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – geothermal energy as a form of heat energy; the main sources of geothermal energy; the world’s geothermal “hot spots”; the four main geothermal resources; the advantages and disadavantages of geothermal energy; its current uses; geothermal power plants; and Australian research and development.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – thermal and ocean gradient energy; solar ponds; their development around the world; and ocean thermal gradients.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – biomass and bioenergy; biofuel; biogas; electricity generation; Western Australia’s use of bioenergy; Verve Energy's role in biomass projects; the advantages and disadvantages of biomass use; the future for biomass.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – the greenhouse effect; greenhouse gas emissions from energy industries, household activities, agricultural activities, transport and industrial processes; the impact of global warming; world environmental agreements; Australian Government greenhouse policies; Verve Energy's initiatives; and Western Australian Government programs.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions; Western Australian Government policies; energy expenditure; water heating consumption; creating an energy efficient home; air-conditioning systems; and more smart ways to save energy at home.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – Australian energy resources; the origins of nuclear energy; nuclear fusion; nuclear fission; the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy; international nuclear power generation; and Australian uranium mining.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – natural gas as a form of chemical energy; its increasingly important role; exploration and drilling in Western Australia; the state’s major natural gas pipelines; transmission and distribution; other Australian gas types; a brief history of the gas industry around the world, Australia and Western Australia; and the search for more natural gas fields.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – petroleum as a form of chemical energy; the historical use of petroleum products; the formation of petroleum; exploration and drilling; today’s petroleum industry; oil shale; the Australian oil industry; the BP refinery in Kwinana; the Kwinana Power Station; and modernising old diesel-fired power stations in regional Western Australia.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – hydrogen energy; hydrogen fuel; hydrogen gas; a brief history of hydrogen; fuel cells and the future; Perth’s hydrogen buses.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – domestic solar hot water systems; flat plate collectors; batch water heaters; how to select the best system; government rebates; and keeping energy costs down.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – landfill gas and landfill sites; processing and electricity generation; and landfill gas use in Western Australia.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – regional and remote Western Australia’s electricity needs; the growing use of renewable energy in remote households; Remote Area Power Supply systems; and more government electricity rebates for remote Aboriginal communities, businesses and households.
This fact sheet will address the following issues – the world’s biggest crude oil producers and consumers; the workings of an oil refinery; simple distillation processes; common refinery products; advanced refining processes; the expansion of oil refining; Australia’s oil refineries; the BP Oil Refinery in Kwinana.
This fact sheet will address the following issues - Australia’s current energy supplies; the new transport fuels known as Gas to Liquid (or GTL) fuels; and the prospects for a future GTL industry in Australia.
This group of Fact Sheets includes some of the scientists that have helped make our modern world of energy what it is today.
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