Strategic advice

Engineers Australia and ATSE support a review of energy planning and regulation. Energy planning and regulation must balance the power systems' physical requirements, the best interests of the end users and market considerations.

Our submission to the National Energy Workforce Strategy makes 5 major recommendations. ATSE calls for a national strategy to increase cooperation and integration of vocational education into high schools and universities, as well as investment in clean energy job in communities built around coal and gas.

This issue of IMPACT showcases Australian experts at the heart of the breakthroughs we need to create healthy communities and thriving environments.

In this issue we show how innovative thinking, technological sciences and engineering excellence is helping us to respond to the challenges we face.

A successful Australian hydrogen energy market strategy should couple economic goals with climate goals. Hydrogen production presents an opportunity to diversify the export economy and reach new markets as demand for Australia’s traditional fossil fuel commodity exports declines.

The resilience, planning, social licence, and funding of civil infrastructure present critical challenges to governments and communities in Australia, which must be better equipped (resourced, trained and informed) to deal with national disasters now and into the future.

The Global Connections Fund (GCF) is an initiative within the Global Innovation Strategy – a component of the Australian Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda.

Read how Priming Grants enabled Australian researchers to meet and exchange ideas with colleagues in China and the USA to develop Oil, Gas and Energy Resources ideas with collaborators there.