A comprehensive review of renewable energy resources for electricity generation in Australia
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Alireza HEIDARI, Ali ESMAEEL NEZHAD, Ahmad TAVAKOLI, Navid REZAEI, Foad H. GANDOMAN, Mohammad Reza MIVEH, Abdollah AHMADI, Majid MALEKPOUR
A comprehensive review of renewable energy resources for electricity generation in Australia
© Higher Education Press 2020
Abstract Recently, renewable energy resources and their impacts have sparked a heated debate to resolve the Australian energy crisis. There are many projects launched throughout the country to improve network security and reliability. This paper aims to review the current status of different renewable energy resources along with their impacts on society and the environment. Besides, it provides for the first time the statistics of the documents published in the field of renewable energy in Australia. The statistics include information such as the rate of papers published, possible journals for finding relative paper, types of documents published, top authors, and the most prevalent keywords in the field of renewable energy in Australia. It will focus on solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydropower technologies and will investigate the social and environmental impacts of these technologies.
Received Jun. 27, 2019; accepted Nov. 25, 2019; online Jun. 10, 2020 Alireza HEIDARI, Abdollah AHMADI, Majid MALEKPOUR School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
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Ali ESMAEEL NEZHAD ( ) Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Ahmad TAVAKOLI Lloy’s Register, Melbourne 3000, Australia Navid REZAEI Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj 6617715175, Iran Foad H. GANDOMAN Research group MOBI–Mobility, Logistics, and Automotive Technology Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels 1050, Belgium; Flanders Make 3001, Haverlee, Belgium Mohammad Reza MIVEH Department of Electrical Engineering, Tafresh University, Tafresh 39518-79611, Iran
Keywords renewable energy, hydro energy, wind power, photovoltaic, geothermal, bioenergy
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Introduction
Renewable energy resources have a rich diversity in Australia ranging from solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and bioenergy to tidal and wave. Since 2010, the use of solar and wind energy resources has started to increase and is continuing rapidly. Among energy resources, hydro energy is largely developed and thanks to this development, there was a sharp increase in renewable energy generation in 2016 [1]. In 2019, 17.3% (approximately 17500 GWh) of Australia’s electricity were supplied by renewable sectors which was adequate to power around 8 million average customers. This was a halfway toward achieving renewable energy target (RET) set at 33000 GWh by 2020 [2]. Note that the RET is an industry development policy with two major parts, namely large-scale renewable energy target (LRET) and small-scale renewable energy scheme (SRES) which plays the role of accelerating renewable energy project
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