What is the National Energy Security Assessment (NESA) and how will it be used?
Contributing to the Government's aim of energy security is the National Energy Security Assessment (NESA). The NESA identifies key strategic energy security issues in the liquid fuels, natural gas and electricity sectors currently, and those likely to influence the level of energy security over the period 2011-2035.
The NESA collates and analyses available information and provides an assessment of energy security. The assessment considers how the identified strategic issues could affect adequacy, reliability and competitive supply in each of the energy sectors.
One key consideration in the NESA is the Government's twin objectives of energy security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, the NESA is a key input into the development of energy policies, including the Energy White Paper.
What does the NESA include?
The assessment also includes for the first time ‘shock scenarios’ (see Related documents) to examine how our energy security may change in the face of supply chain disruptions. Major supply disruptions in imported fuels from Singapore (contained within the Liquid Fuels Vulnerability Assessment report), pipeline gas into Brisbane, and from the largest brown coal generator in Victoria were extensively modelled.
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