While all things greenhouse appear to be marking time at a national level and, many who voted for Kevin 07 are unhappy and some horrified at the thought of his budgie-wearing counterpart Tony 10, matters chug along at NSW state level with average equivalent emissions this week running 15% above the level required to stop global warming and dirty energy prevails according to The Weekly Greenhouse Gas Indicator.
Queensland is a shocking 90% over equivalent weekly emissions levels for 1990 and South Australia is 12% below. The Northern Territory and West Australia are not tracked it this longtitudinal data collection.
New south wales
This week's (7 May to 13 May) NSW Indicator is 1.908 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, the breakdown is as follows:
In tonnes:
Electricity from coal: 1.106 million; 58.0%
Natural gas: 0.171 million; 8.9%
Petroleum: 0.632 million; 33.1%
This week
NSW's emissions from energy grew by 2.2% or 42,000 tonnes, due to an increase in emissions from both gas and coal-fired generation.
Emissions sources
Emissions from coal-fired electricity, which accounted for 87% of electricity generation in NSW this week, grew by 0.9% or 10,000 tonnes with a number of generation units operating at a higher capacity.
Emissions from gas grew by 23% or 32,000 tonnes.
Emissions from petroleum products continued at the same low level as last week – the lowest level of petrol emissions for the state in over two years.
Demand & Import/Export
Electricity demand grew 1.5%.
NSW imported 5.7% of its electricity demand from other states, compared to 6.9% last week.
Comparisons
This week's Indicator is 9.2% lower than the same week in 2009 and total emissions to this stage of 2010 are 5.5% lower than the similar stage last year.
This week's Indicator is 15% above the average equivalent 1990 weekly emissions and 1.3% below the equivalent 2000 weekly average.
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