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    Prospects of renewable energy - a feasibility study in the Australian context

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    Authors
    Shafiullah, G.
    Amanullah, M.
    Shawkat Ali, A.
    Jarvis, D.
    Wolfs, Peter
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Shafiullah, G. and Amanullah, M. and Shawkat Ali, A. and Jarvis, D. and Wolfs, P. 2012. Prospects of renewable energy - a feasibility study in the Australian context. Renewable Energy. 39 (1): pp. 183-197.
    Source Title
    Renewable Energy
    DOI
    10.1016/j.renene.2011.08.016
    ISSN
    0960-1481
    School
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56320
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Given the recent increasing public focus on climate change issues, there is a need for robust, sustainable and climate friendly power transmission and distribution systems that are intelligent, reliable, and green. Current power systems create environmental impacts as well as contributing to global warming due to their utilization of fossil fuels, especially coal, as carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere. In contrast to fossil fuels, renewable energy is starting to be used as the panacea for solving climate change or global warming problems. This paper describes a feasibility study undertaken to investigate the potentialities of renewable energy including the prospective locations in Australia for renewable energy generation, in particular solar and wind energy. Initially, a hybrid model has been developed to investigate the prospects of wind energy for typical Australian region considering production cost, cost of energy, emission production and contribution from renewable energy using the Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER), a computer model developed by the USA's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This model also explores suitable places around Australia for wind energy generation using statistical analysis. Subsequently, the usefulness of solar energy in the Australian context and suitable locations for solar energy generation are also investigated using a similar hybrid model. Finally, the model has been developed to investigate the prospects of renewable energy in particular wind and solar energy including specific locations in Australia that would be suitable for both wind and solar energy generation. From simulation analysis it is clearly observed that Australia has enormous potentialities for substantially increased use of renewable energy; a large penetration of renewable energy sources into the national power system would reduce CO 2 emissions significantly, contributing to the reduction of global warming. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

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