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Queensland's Energy Futures

To learn about emerging and existing clean energy sources in Queensland, visit the Queensland's Energy Futures website.


ClimateQ: toward a greener Queensland

Queensland's revised climate change strategy presents investments and policies to ensure Queensland remains at the forefront of the national climate change response. Find out more about ClimateQ: toward a greener Queensland.


Low emission coal technology

Low emission coal technology (also known as clean coal technology) covers a range of techniques that aim to make energy from fossil fuels more environmentally friendly. This group of technologies explore ways to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions released into the Earth's atmosphere from fossil-fuelled power stations.

Currently, approximately 81 per cent of the state's electricity is generated by coal-fired power stations. The challenge for Queensland in the 21st century is to use energy resources more wisely, and to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions, especially from electricity production.

In Queensland, research and development is being carried out in three major techniques for low emission coal technology:

  • pre-combustion capture
  • post-combustion capture
  • oxyfuel combustion.

More information about low emission coal technology

For more information about low emission coal technology techniques, and research initiatives and demonstration projects currently underway in Queensland, visit Queensland's Energy Futures website.

Last Updated 05 November 2009