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A comprehensive review of renewable energy resources for electricity generation in Australia

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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.

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Abbreviations

ACT:

Australian Capital Territory

AER:

Australian Energy Regulator

APVI:

Australian Photovoltaic Institute

ARENA:

Australian Renewable Energy Agency

BNEF:

Bloomberg New Energy Finance

CEC:

Clean Energy Council

CHP:

Combined Heat and Power

CRC:

Cooperative Research Centre

CSP:

Concentrated solar power

FiT:

Feed-in-Tariff

GHG:

Greenhouse gas

IEA:

International Energy Agency

LCOE:

Levelized cost of energy

LRET:

Large-scale Renewable Energy Target

NSW:

New South Wales

NT:

Northern Territory

PV:

Photovoltaic

QLD:

Queensland

RET:

Renewable energy target

SA:

South Australia

SRES:

Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme

TAS:

Tasmania

VIC:

Victoria

WA:

Western Australia

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia

    Alireza Heidari, Abdollah Ahmadi & Majid Malekpour

  2. Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy

    Ali Esmaeel Nezhad

  3. Lloy’s Register, Melbourne, 3000, Australia

    Ahmad Tavakoli

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, 6617715175, Iran

    Navid Rezaei

  5. Research group MOBI-Mobility, Logistics, and Automotive Technology Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, 1050, Belgium

    Foad H. Gandoman

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    Foad H. Gandoman

  7. Department of Electrical Engineering, Tafresh University, Tafresh, 39518-79611, Iran

    Mohammad Reza Miveh

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Heidari, A., Esmaeel Nezhad, A., Tavakoli, A. et al. A comprehensive review of renewable energy resources for electricity generation in Australia. Front. Energy 14, 510–529 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-020-0671-6

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