Deploy: Clean Technologies

We can cut Australia’s emissions 81% by 2030 with a national clean technology rollout

October 2022

A mass deployment of clean technologies

Deploy is a five-year plan for an ambitious rollout of clean technologies that will drive down emissions and build a prosperous Australia. Deploy shows how we can create up to 195,000 jobs and repower Australia’s manufacturing regions - all while reaching an 81% emissions reduction by 2030, supported by target carbon drawdown.

The five-year Deploy plan. It's ambitious - and achievable

Deploy identifies clean technologies that can make the most immediate impact on emissions, the number of units we will need and the rate at which we need to get them into use over the next five years. It also shows how rolling out clean technologies is an opportunity for Australia to create jobs, revitalise our manufacturing sector and allow Australia to be competitive in the clean technology export market and in energy exports.

The five-year Deploy plan. It's ambitious - and achievable

Deploy identifies clean technologies that can make the most immediate impact on emissions, the number of units we will need and the rate at which we need to get them into use over the next five years. It also shows how rolling out clean technologies is an opportunity for Australia to create jobs, revitalise our manufacturing sector and allow Australia to be competitive in the clean technology export market and in energy exports.

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We have the technology. We have the plan. It's time to lead.

With solar, Australia has shown it can lead the world in deploying renewable energy technology. We already know how to make the technologies that are needed for a zero-emissions economy - we just need to make more of them and put them to work. Find out how four technologies - available today - can do the heavy lifting.

Benefits to business, industry and regional communities

Deploying this technology over five years will see:

175,000

jobs created

Reduce

manufacturers' energy costs

$333b

green export industry stimulated

Revitalise

manufacturing in regions, urban centres

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A national cleantech rollout can cut Australia’s emissions 81% by 2030

We need to ramp up rollout rates of the six key technologies that will do the heavy lifting. This chart shows the increase in rollout rates for these key technologies needed to achieve the five-year Deploy plan.

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A national cleantech rollout can cut Australia’s emissions 81% by 2030

We need to ramp up rollout rates of the six key technologies that will do the heavy lifting. This chart shows the increase in rollout rates for these key technologies needed to achieve the five-year Deploy plan.

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A national cleantech rollout can cut Australia’s emissions 81% by 2030

We need to ramp up rollout rates of the six key technologies that will do the heavy lifting. This chart shows the increase in rollout rates for these key technologies needed to achieve the five-year Deploy plan.

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81% emissions cut by 2030

When we compare our total reduction figures to 2005 emission levels (used by national and state governments) we reach a 70% emissions cut by 2030. This is 81% when carbon drawdown is taken into account. The potential for emissions reduction is far greater than the Australian Government’s legislated target of a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

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81% emissions cut by 2030

When we compare our total reduction figures to 2005 emission levels (used by national and state governments) we reach a 70% emissions cut by 2030. This is 81% when carbon drawdown is taken into account. The potential for emissions reduction is far greater than the Australian Government’s legislated target of a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

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81% emissions cut by 2030

When we compare our total reduction figures to 2005 emission levels (used by national and state governments) we reach a 70% emissions cut by 2030. This is 81% when carbon drawdown is taken into account. The potential for emissions reduction is far greater than the Australian Government’s legislated target of a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

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Electricity

The increase in renewable power capacity by technology type in 2021 - and in five years time with our recommended deployment rates. Australia could reach 84% renewable energy generation within five years by deploying 64 GW of renewable capacity and 13 GW (67 GWh) of energy storage capacity – and 100% renewable energy generation by 2030.

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Industry

Decarbonising aluminium/alumina manufacturing will reduce industry emission by a third.

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Vehicles

Replacing all of the ICE vehicles is going to take time, so a high new car sales rate will be essential to driving down transport emissions.

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Buildings

High pump technologies can be up to 12 times more efficiency than gas heating technologies.

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Land Use

The majority of emission reduction with land use comes from protecting existing stock of old carbon sequestering technology.

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Our five-year plan requires investment and coordination, skilled people and reliable supply chains, and immediate large-scale action:

  • We need to install renewable generation capacity and far more storage than the total of all types of generation capacity and storage in Australia today
  • Each sector needs an ambitious, individualised roadmap to realising their emissionreduction contributions, removing inertia and allowing momentum to build.

We need to install clean technology in our homes, vehicles and industries at a rate of about two units or appliances per household. In five years this looks like: 

  • 10.6 million units of clean technology in 3 million residential buildings (such as air conditioning heat pumps)
  • 2.9 million units of building efficiency technologies (including thermal upgrades and induction cooktops)
  • 7,000 units of technology in industrial settings (industrial-scale heat pumps and electrolysers)
  • 3.8 million units for transport (electric vehicles and chargers)

"All the technologies needed to achieve the necessary deep cuts in global emissions by 2030 already exist."

International Energy Agency

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