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Trigeneration Master Plan

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A key component of Sustainable Sydney 2030 is the call for a network of Green Transformers, principally housing trigeneration, to supply the City of Sydney local government area with low-carbon electricity and zero-carbon heating and cooling.

In 2009, the City engaged a consortium of Kinesis, Cogent and Origin Energy to develop the City’s Decentralised Energy Master Plan - Trigeneration (Trigeneration Master Plan). This is the first of the City’s Green Infrastructure Master Plans, which will produce significant energy savings across the city.   

There was extensive modelling of the electricity, heating and cooling demands of buildings in the local government area to determine the optimal sizes and locations for trigeneration systems.

An interim Trigeneration Master Plan has been completed covering the four energy dense zones of the city – CBD North/Barangaroo, CDB South, Pyrmont/Broadway and Green Square. Together, these four zones would deliver 360MWe of trigeneration, which would exceed the City’s target. 

The interim Trigeneration Master Plan would reduce the City’s greenhouse gas emissions by between 1.1 million and 1.7 million tonnes a year. This represents a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of between 39 per cent and 56 per cent for the building sector and between 18 per cent and 26 per cent of the overall Sustainable Sydney 2030 target.

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Email: trigeneration@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Last Updated: Wednesday 2 February, 2011

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