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.
SMRs could potentially form part of Australia’s future low-carbon energy mix, utilising existing transmission infrastructure and contributing to baseload power, or providing dispatchable power in a high-renewables grid. As an emerging technology, in 2024 the cost and operational performance of this technology has not yet been demonstrated.