The Renewable Energy Systems program aims to understand the geopolitical, economic and technological drivers needed to ensure the successful trade in renewable electricity. By providing the techno-economic basis, this project aims to show how zero-carbon electricity systems can be broadly viewed as a secure and reliable economic opportunity in Australia and the world. This project will also provide a greater understanding of the scale of the opportunity for renewable electricity exports from Australia.

Publications

• Cheng Cheng, Natalia Pereira Gutierrez, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, GIS-based solar and wind resource assessment and least-cost 100% renewable electricity modelling for Bolivia, Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume 69 (August 2022)
• Reza Fazeli, Fiona J. Beck, Matt Stocks, Recognizing the role of uncertainties in the transition to renewable hydrogen, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 47, Issue 65 (July 2022)
• Paul Burke, Fiona Beck, Emma Aisbett, Kenneth Baldwin, Matthew Stocks, John Pye, Mahesh Venkataraman, Janet Hunt, Xuemei Bai, Contributing to regional decarbonization: Australia’s potential to supply zero-carbon commodities to the Asia-Pacific. Energy, Volume 248, 123563 (June 2022)
• David Firnando Silalahi, Andrew Blakers, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, Indonesia’s Vast Off-River Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Potential, Energies, 15(9), 3457 (May 2022)
• Cheng Cheng, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, 100% renewable energy in Japan, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 255, 115299 (March 2022)
• Matthew Stocks, Reza Fazeli, Llewelyn Hughes, Fiona J. Beck, Global emissions implications from co-combusting ammonia in coal fired power stations: An analysis of the Japan-Australia supply chain, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 336, 130092 (February 2022)
• Anna Nadolny, Cheng Cheng, Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Fully electrified land transport in 100% renewable electricity networks dominated by variable generation, Renewable Energy, 182, 562-577 (January 2022)
• Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Thang Nam Do, Low-cost, low-emission 100% renewable electricity in Southeast Asia supported by pumped hydro storage, Energy, 121387 (December 2021)
• Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, The observed cost of high penetration solar and wind electricity, Energy, Volume 233, 121150 (October 2021)
• David Firnando Silalahi, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, Liam Hayes, Indonesia’s Vast Solar Energy Potential, Energies, 14(17), 5424 (August 2021)
• Liam Hayes, Matthew Stocks, Andrew Blakers, Accurate long-term power generation model for offshore wind farms in Europe using ERA5 reanalysis, Energy, Volume 229, 120603 (August 2021)
• Sunil Prasad Lohani, Andrew Blakers, 100% renewable energy with pumped hydro energy storage in Nepal, Clean Energy Journal, 5(2), 243-253 (June 2021)
• Marta Victoria, Nancy Haegel, Ian Marius Peters, Ron Sinton, Arnulf Jäger-Waldau, Carlos del Cañizo, Christian Breyer, Matthew Stocks, Andrew Blakers, Izumi Kaizuka, Keiichi Komoto, Arno Smets, Solar photovoltaics is ready to power a sustainable future, Joule, 5(5), 1041-1056 (May 2021)
• Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Cheng Cheng, Anna Nadolny, A zero-carbon, reliable and affordable energy future in Australia, Energy, Volume 220, 119678 (April 2021)
• Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, A review of pumped hydro energy storage, Progress in Energy, 3(2), 022003 (March 2021)
• Matthew Stocks, Ryan Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, Andrew Blakers, Global Atlas of Closed-Loop Pumped Hydro Energy Storage, Joule, 5(1), 270-284 (January 2021)
• Cheng Cheng, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, & Bin Lu, Pumped hydro energy storage and 100% renewable electricity for East Asia, Global Energy Interconnection, 2(5), 387-393 (October 2019)
• Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, Ryan Stocks, Pathway to 100% Renewable Electricity, IEEE Journal Photovoltaics, Volume 9, 1828-1833 (September 2019)
• Bin Lu, Matthew Stocks, Andrew Blakers, Kirsten Anderson, Geographic information system algorithms to locate prospective sites for pumped hydro energy storage, Applied Energy, Volume 222 (July 2018)

Short Articles

• Andrew Blakers, Anna Nadolny & Ryan Stocks, Batteries of gravity and water: we found 1,500 new pumped hydro sites next to existing reservoirs, The Conversation, (November 2022) 
• Andrew Blakers, There’s a huge surge in solar production under way – and Australia could show the world how to use it, The Conversation, (September 2022)
• David Silalahi & Andrew Blakers, Sunshine by day, water by night: Indonesia could pair its vast solar and hydro storage to decarbonise the country, The Conversation, (May 2022)

Submissions

• Bin Lu, Lee White, Timothy Weber, Anna Nadolny, Yuan Peng, Wenting Cheng, Igor Skryabin, Brad Riley, Kenneth Baldwin, Genevieve Newey, Clare de Castella, Elizabeth Ratnam, Bjorn Sturmberg, Submission to the ACT’s Integrated Energy Plan, (September 2023)