What a warmer Australia means

2013 was the hottest year in 2013, reports ABC.

Research Fellow with Victoria University Professor Roger Jones works on developing ways to manage climate change risks. Talking about the long term effects of global warming on the infrastructure, particularly on the electric grid, he said:

"We've built the grid to withstand the hottest temperatures. It needs the capacity to handle those peak loads rather than just the average loads.

Maintaining a grid that will cope with peak loads is the main impetus for our increased electricity bills most over the past seven to eight years."