green transformers

The City of Sydney aims to remove its dependence on coal–fired electricity and increase its self sufficiency of low carbon energy and sustainable water supplies to and beyond 2030.

The City of Sydney will facilitate the development of Green Transformers - infrastructure hubs to reinvent the supply of energy and water in the City.

Green Transformers are central plants which convert waste to energy, produce low–carbon energy and recycled water. Through cogeneration, heat is captured as the by-product of energy generation. This heat is then used for heating, hot water and can even be used to chill water that is then used to cool buildings. These systems could be installed in urban renewal areas as well as being retrofitted in key locations.

Green Transformers will lower emissions, reduce potable water consumption and guarantee a level of self-sufficiency for the City.

- Green Transformer
- 2030 Target - To achieve 70 per cent reduction in green house gases from 2006 levels
- 2030 Target - Waste to energy infrastructure to meet up to 100 per cent of energy demand
Benefits to the City
- Guarantee a level of self–sufficiency for the City
- When combined with other demand reduction measures, provide approximately 70 per cent of electricity requirements for the City in 2030
- Lower the greenhouse intensity of electricity by approximately 35 per cent
- Using the by–products of energy generation, provide greenhouse–free hot water, heating, and cooling to approximately 36 per cent of all dwellings in the City, and 43 per cent of all non–residential buildings in the City
- Reduce by 20 per cent the carbon dioxide emissions from ‘business as usual’ projections for 2030
- Remove reliance on any coal-fired electricity
- Supply an estimated 10 per cent of the City of Sydney’s water demand from within City boundaries

green transformers

Benefits to the City

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