- Title
- Simulating low-carbon electricity supply for Australia
- Creator
- Lenzen, Manfred; McBain, Bonnie; Trainer, Ted; Jütte, Silke; Rey-Lescure, Olivier; Huang, Jing
- Relation
- Applied Energy Vol. 179, Issue 1 Oct., p. 553-564
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.06.151
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- We offer a simulation of low-carbon electricity supply for Australia, based on currently and economically operating technologies and proven resources, contributing new knowledge by: featuring a GIS-based spatial optimisation process for identifying suitable generator locations; including expanded transmission networks; covering the entire continent; and investigating the significance of biofuel availability and carbon price. We find that nation-wide low-carbon electricity supply is possible at about 160 GW installed capacity, at indicative cost of around 20 ¢/kWh, involving wind, concentrating solar, and PV utilities, and less than 20 TWh of biofuelled generation. Dispatchable hydro and biofuel plants are required to plug gaps caused by occasional low-resource periods. Technology and cost breakthroughs for storage, geothermal, and ocean technologies, as well as offshore wind deployment would substantially alter our assessment.
- Subject
- electricity generation simulation; renewable energy; transmission network extension; low-carbon power
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1320718
- Identifier
- uon:24204
- Identifier
- ISSN: 0306-2619
- Rights
- © 2016 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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