Modelling Australia's transition to 100% renewable electricity

Changlong Wang; Roger Dargaville

doi:10.1109/ICPES47639.2019.9105634

Modelling Australia's transition to 100% renewable electricity

Changlong Wang, Roger Dargaville

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

This paper shows 100% renewable electricity by 2050 in Australia is both technically and economically feasible. Modelling the transition from today's electricity generation mix to 2050 using a capacity expansion model with hourly variability in wind and solar potential input, detailed transmission, ramp rate and inertia constraints, we show that the least-cost power system will consist mostly of wind, solar PV, pumped hydro energy storage and upgraded transmission networks. We demonstrate that the 100% renewable system is not only cost-competitive, but also equally robust in terms of reliability and security compared to the longstanding fossil fuel dominated power system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, ICPES 2019
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728126586
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPES47639.2019.9105634
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	International Conference on Power and Energy Systems 2019 - Perth, Australia Duration: 10 Dec 2019 → 12 Dec 2019 Conference number: 9th https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/xpl/conhome/9098828/proceeding (Proceedings ) https://web.archive.org/web/20191121113736/http://www.icpes.org/index.html (Website)

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Name	2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, ICPES 2019

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Power and Energy Systems 2019
Abbreviated title	ICPES 2019
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth
Period	10/12/19 → 12/12/19
Other	This is not the same conference series as ERA conference record as "International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (POES)"
Internet address	https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/xpl/conhome/9098828/proceeding (Proceedings ) https://web.archive.org/web/20191121113736/http://www.icpes.org/index.html (Website)

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

100% renewable power system
capacity expansion planning
decarbonisation
least-cost abatement

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Wang, C & Dargaville, R 2019, Modelling Australia's transition to 100% renewable electricity. in 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, ICPES 2019. 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, ICPES 2019, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Conference on Power and Energy Systems 2019, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 10/12/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPES47639.2019.9105634

Modelling Australia's transition to 100% renewable electricity. / Wang, Changlong ; Dargaville, Roger.
2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, ICPES 2019. IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019. (2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems, ICPES 2019).

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Modelling Australia's transition to 100% renewable electricity

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