Joint Assertion Between the U.S. & Australia on the 2024 Ministerial Dialogue on Clear Vitality – CleanTechnica – TechnoNews

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1. United States Secretary for Vitality, Jennifer Granholm, and Australian Minister for Local weather Change and Vitality, Chris Bowen, held the second United States-Australia Ministerial Dialogue on Clear Vitality on the margins of the G20 Vitality Transitions Ministerial in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil on October 4, 2024.

    

2. The Ministerial Dialogue on Clear Vitality marked the fruits of a yr of progress since its inaugural assembly to understand the shared dedication to raise local weather and clear power cooperation to the third pillar of our alliance, as set forth by leaders in Could 2023 by the Local weather, Important Minerals and Clear Vitality Transformation Compact (Compact) and bolstered by Prime Minister Albanese’s conferences with President Biden in Washington in October 2023 and Delaware in September 2024.

    

3. Ministers mentioned the necessity to work collectively to help and safe clear photo voltaic provide chains, which can leverage each nations’ vital investments and complementary assets of their respective photo voltaic industries in help of our leaders’ intent to collaborate on clear power provide chains. As a primary step to investigating the feasibility of an end-to-end photo voltaic provide chain, Ministers famous their intent to conduct and report on techno-economic market research on the photo voltaic trade, together with polysilicon processing and commerce. This work will leverage photo voltaic cooperation between ARENA and the U.S. Division of Vitality (DOE), and the Australia–U.S. Clear Vitality Business Council.

    

4. Ministers acknowledged the numerous financial alternatives of the worldwide clear power transformation to web zero by mid-century. They emphasised that each nations’ vital investments of their renewable power industries, by the US Inflation Discount Act and Australia’s Future Made in Australia plan respectively, supplied unparalleled alternatives for collaboration to form a remodeled international power future. Ministers voiced their expectation that, by the Compact, joint U.S.–Australia efforts would help companions within the Indo-Pacific as they meet their decarbonization and provide chain diversification objectives.

    

5. Ministers reaffirmed that the local weather disaster represents the existential problem of our time and dedicated to even nearer cooperation to attain a completely or predominantly carbon pollution-free energy sector by 2035, web zero greenhouse gasoline emissions by 2050, reaffirming the Paris Settlement temperature aim and reiterating our resolve to pursue deep, fast and sustained reductions in greenhouse gasoline emissions to maintain 1.5°C inside attain.  In help of final yr’s G20 chief’s dedication to tripling renewable power and doubling power effectivity by 2030, each nations acknowledged the necessity for fast international deployment of unpolluted power applied sciences this decade, together with help for international objectives for power storage within the energy sector of 1500 GW by 2030 and pursuing a 1.5°C-aligned aim for grids modernization and buildout to make sure fast and dependable electrical energy supply to these most in want.  Each nations additionally reaffirmed the work of the Carbon Administration Problem to help a world aim of advancing carbon administration tasks that might collectively attain gigatonne scale by 2030. The US welcomed Australia’s bid to host COP31 in 2026 in partnership with Pacific nations, noting its alternatives to speed up international local weather motion and clear power transition.

    

6. Ministers introduced Australia as a global collaborator of the usDOE’s Lengthy Length Storage Shot™, a essential a part of the formidable Vitality Earthshots™ Initiative.  Australia and the USA intend to work collectively in the direction of international ambition in step with the Lengthy Length Storage Shot™, making an allowance for nationwide circumstances, by the Compact to pursue revolutionary breakthroughs that drive down expertise prices for lengthy period power storage, speed up decarbonization of the electrical grid, and be certain that a clear power future is accessible and inexpensive for all communities.  Each nations plan to satisfy yearly and share finest apply, methods and progress. Ministers additionally mentioned curiosity in future work collectively on upgrading properties and decreasing power payments and famous Australia’s curiosity within the Reasonably priced Residence Vitality Shot™ beneath the Vitality Earthshots Initiative for potential future collaboration.

    

7. Moreover, Ministers mentioned vital progress in the direction of the implementation of key initiatives beneath the Compact, steering the long run course of our power partnership, together with by:

• • Commencing two tasks beneath the Web Zero Know-how Acceleration Partnership (NZTAP), supported by joint funding by the Australian and U.S. Governments. Agreed tasks embrace:
    • Impartial System Operator Technical Secondment program co-delivered by the U.S. Nationwide Renewable Vitality Laboratory (NREL) and the Australian Vitality Market Operator which can assist each nations to function fashionable, safe and dependable grids to accommodate elevated renewable power and power storage over coming many years.
    • Grid Integration of Utility Scale Batteries evaluation report by NREL and CSIRO, to handle the pressing have to retailer and dispatch cleaner power.
  • Settlement to resume a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CSIRO and NREL, which can present a robust basis to deepen expertise R&D cooperation focussed on clear power sectors.
  • Dedication to signal an MOU between the U.S. DOE and ARENA this yr. The MoU encompasses expertise cooperation and information sharing, which can embrace renewable power, power storage, distributed power assets, hydrogen, and First Nations Engagement.
  • Intent to carry an inaugural Dialogue on Partaking Tribal and First Nations Peoples within the Vitality Transition in October 2024.
  • Progress in negotiations on a U.S. DOE attaché place in Canberra.
  • Dedication to carry the inaugural Australia-U.S. Clear Vitality Business Council in 2025. The Business Council will set up a sturdy structure for enterprise connections and can draw on the experience of stakeholders to advise on clear power trade improvement and cooperation.
  • Institution of ongoing technical exchanges on commerce and local weather points between the Australian DCCEEW and the U.S. DOE. As Leaders recalled in October 2023, Australia and the U.S. are dedicated to coverage change on emissions accounting methodologies and emissions-intensity information to help our shared local weather and inexperienced industrial objectives.
  • Recognition of the continued work by technical exchanges on methodology and information with the White Home Local weather and Commerce Taskforce.

8. Ministers famous the importance of the annual senior official Australia-United States Vitality Safety Dialogue. They welcomed officers’ intent to carry the subsequent Dialogue in the USA in 2025 and proceed to make use of the Compact Motion Plan to drive formidable options to shared challenges on power provide chains.