‘Smart infrastructure’, such as smart meters, are innovative, information-based energy technologi... more ‘Smart infrastructure’, such as smart meters, are innovative, information-based energy technologies designed to promote systemic energy efficiency, cost savings, and to transition energy markets toward sustainable outcomes, including reducing climate change impacts. Smart meters promise innovation in electricity markets–as an enabler of demand-side services and a more distributed energy system. The chapter examines three case studies of legal reform for smart meter introduction in Australia and Germany. It concludes that the realization of the innovation promise of smart infrastructure requires the legal system to address consumer-oriented social and economic changes. While legal responses are growing in sophistication, significant questions around consumer protection remain, although Germany emphasizes consumer privacy more than Australian case studies. Finally, Germany most closely links innovation to climate change and electricity system transitions, whereas, increasingly, Australian policies emphasize the consumer benefits and innovation in the business models for electricity distribution.
This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the Pac... more This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Review project for the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). The UoM team reviewed laws on waste management related to the priority waste streams of healthcare waste, asbestos, e-waste, recyclables, plastic waste, bulky waste, organic waste, disaster waste and wastewater in 14 Pacific region countries and Timor-Leste (the ‘participating countries’).
This report contains the UoM team’s findings relating to: a. A stocktake of the existing legislat... more This report contains the UoM team’s findings relating to: a. A stocktake of the existing legislative environment for waste management in the participating countries, focusing on the PacWastePlus priority waste streams of healthcare waste, asbestos, e-waste, plastic waste, recyclables, organics, disaster waste, bulky waste and wastewater, and including implementing legislation for the following multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs): the Basel, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Minamata and Waigani Conventions. The UoM team’s understanding of the coverage of the priority waste streams was drawn from PacWastePlus Programme, The Connection, September-October 2019. b. A stocktake of ‘pipeline’ (i.e. proposed) legislative and related initiatives in the participating countries, including an assessment of their impact and approximate timeframe for development.
‘Smart infrastructure’, such as smart meters, are innovative, information-based energy technologi... more ‘Smart infrastructure’, such as smart meters, are innovative, information-based energy technologies designed to promote systemic energy efficiency, cost savings, and to transition energy markets toward sustainable outcomes, including reducing climate change impacts. Smart meters promise innovation in electricity markets–as an enabler of demand-side services and a more distributed energy system. The chapter examines three case studies of legal reform for smart meter introduction in Australia and Germany. It concludes that the realization of the innovation promise of smart infrastructure requires the legal system to address consumer-oriented social and economic changes. While legal responses are growing in sophistication, significant questions around consumer protection remain, although Germany emphasizes consumer privacy more than Australian case studies. Finally, Germany most closely links innovation to climate change and electricity system transitions, whereas, increasingly, Australian policies emphasize the consumer benefits and innovation in the business models for electricity distribution.
This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the Pac... more This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Review project for the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). The UoM team reviewed laws on waste management related to the priority waste streams of healthcare waste, asbestos, e-waste, recyclables, plastic waste, bulky waste, organic waste, disaster waste and wastewater in 14 Pacific region countries and Timor-Leste (the ‘participating countries’).
This report contains the UoM team’s findings relating to: a. A stocktake of the existing legislat... more This report contains the UoM team’s findings relating to: a. A stocktake of the existing legislative environment for waste management in the participating countries, focusing on the PacWastePlus priority waste streams of healthcare waste, asbestos, e-waste, plastic waste, recyclables, organics, disaster waste, bulky waste and wastewater, and including implementing legislation for the following multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs): the Basel, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Minamata and Waigani Conventions. The UoM team’s understanding of the coverage of the priority waste streams was drawn from PacWastePlus Programme, The Connection, September-October 2019. b. A stocktake of ‘pipeline’ (i.e. proposed) legislative and related initiatives in the participating countries, including an assessment of their impact and approximate timeframe for development.
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