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

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

    

2. The Ministerial Dialogue on Clear Power marked the fruits of a yr of progress since its inaugural assembly to comprehend the shared dedication to raise local weather and clear vitality cooperation to the third pillar of our alliance, as set forth by leaders in Might 2023 via the Local weather, Crucial Minerals and Clear Power 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 vitality 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 Power (DOE), and the Australia–U.S. Clear Power Trade Council.

    

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

    

5. Ministers reaffirmed that the local weather disaster represents the existential problem of our time and dedicated to even nearer cooperation to realize a completely or predominantly carbon pollution-free energy sector by 2035, internet zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2050, reaffirming the Paris Settlement temperature objective and reiterating our resolve to pursue deep, speedy and sustained reductions in greenhouse fuel emissions to maintain 1.5°C inside attain.  In help of final yr’s G20 chief’s dedication to tripling renewable vitality and doubling vitality effectivity by 2030, each nations acknowledged the necessity for speedy international deployment of fresh vitality applied sciences this decade, together with help for international targets for vitality storage within the energy sector of 1500 GW by 2030 and pursuing a 1.5°C-aligned objective for grids modernization and buildout to make sure speedy and dependable electrical energy supply to these most in want.  Each nations additionally reaffirmed the work of the Carbon Administration Problem to help a worldwide objective of advancing carbon administration initiatives that might collectively attain gigatonne scale by 2030. The USA 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 vitality transition.

    

6. Ministers introduced Australia as a global collaborator of the usDOE’s Lengthy Period Storage Shot™, a vital a part of the formidable Power Earthshots™ Initiative.  Australia and america intend to work collectively in the direction of international ambition in keeping with the Lengthy Period Storage Shot™, making an allowance for nationwide circumstances, via the Compact to pursue progressive breakthroughs that drive down expertise prices for lengthy length vitality storage, speed up decarbonization of the electrical grid, and be certain that a clear vitality future is accessible and reasonably priced for all communities.  Each nations plan to satisfy yearly and share greatest observe, methods and progress. Ministers additionally mentioned curiosity in future work collectively on upgrading houses and decreasing vitality payments and famous Australia’s curiosity within the Reasonably priced Dwelling Power Shot™ beneath the Power 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 route of our vitality partnership, together with via:

• • Commencing two initiatives beneath the Internet Zero Know-how Acceleration Partnership (NZTAP), supported via joint funding by the Australian and U.S. Governments. Agreed initiatives embrace:
    • Unbiased System Operator Technical Secondment program co-delivered by the U.S. Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory (NREL) and the Australian Power Market Operator which can assist each nations to function fashionable, safe and dependable grids to accommodate elevated renewable vitality and vitality storage over coming many years.
    • Grid Integration of Utility Scale Batteries evaluation report by NREL and CSIRO, to deal with the pressing must retailer and dispatch cleaner vitality.
  • Settlement to resume a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CSIRO and NREL, which can present a powerful basis to deepen expertise R&D cooperation focussed on clear vitality 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 vitality, vitality storage, distributed vitality assets, hydrogen, and First Nations Engagement.
  • Intent to carry an inaugural Dialogue on Partaking Tribal and First Nations Peoples within the Power 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 Power Trade Council in 2025. The Trade Council will set up a sturdy structure for enterprise connections and can draw on the experience of stakeholders to advise on clear vitality trade growth 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 alternate on emissions accounting methodologies and emissions-intensity knowledge to help our shared local weather and inexperienced industrial targets.
  • Recognition of the continued work via technical exchanges on methodology and knowledge with the White Home Local weather and Commerce Taskforce.

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