Prospect of renewable energy sources and integrating challenges in Victoria, Australia

Author

Arangarajan, V. ; Stojcevski, Alex ; Oo, Amanullah Maung Than ; Shafiullah, Gm

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Deakin Univ. - Waurn Ponds, Geelong, VIC, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

Sept. 29 2013-Oct. 3 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The Australian Government has targeted 20% of electricity generation from renewable energy sources by 2020. The 20% renewable energy target (RET) for Australia will be around 45000GWH in 2020. Renewable energy of Victoria also includes as part of support to achieve 20% RET in Australia. In Victoria wind and solar resources are abundant as compared to other sources of renewable energy. Solar radiation and wind speed data for Victoria State was collected from NASA surface meteorology and solar energy web site. A feasibility analysis has been carried out to explore the potentialities of wind and solar energy for Victoria State using hybrid optimization model of electric renewable (HOMER) software. This paper also represents the estimation analysis of RET for Victoria and describes the integrating challenges of renewable energy sources to the utility grid.

Keywords

solar power; wind power; NASA surface meteorology; Victoria State Australia; electric renewable software; estimation analysis; feasibility analysis; hybrid optimization model; renewable energy source; solar energy Web site; solar resource; wind resource; Economics; Electricity; Power generation; Radio frequency; Renewable energy sources; Software; Hybrid power system; RET; Renewable energy; economic anlysis; environmental analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), 2013 Australasian Universities

Conference_Location

Hobart, TAS

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUPEC.2013.6725370

Filename

6725370