Title :
Long term transmission planning to meet renewable energy targets in Australia
Author :
Mishra, Y. ; Ledwich, G. ; Ghosh, A. ; George, T.
Author_Institution :
Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
Australia is rich in renewable energy resources such as wind, solar and geothermal. Geographical diversity of these renewable resources combined with developing climate change policies poses a great challenge for the long term interconnection planning. Intermittency of wind and solar potentially driving the development of new transmission lines bring additional complexity to power system operations and planning. This paper provides an overview of generation and transmission planning studies in Australia to meet 20% renewable energy target by 2020. Appraisal of the effectiveness of dispersed energy storage, non schedulable peaking plants, wide area controls and demand management techniques to aid the penetration of renewables is presented in this paper.
Keywords :
demand side management; energy storage; power generation planning; power transmission lines; power transmission planning; renewable energy sources; Australia; climate change policy; demand management techniques; dispersed energy storage; geographical diversity; geothermal renewable energy resources; long term interconnection planning; long term transmission planning; nonschedulable peaking plants; power generation planning; power system planning; power transmission lines; renewable energy targets; solar renewable energy resources; wide area controls; wind renewable energy resources; Australia; Coal; Investments; Planning; Power systems; Renewable energy resources; Wind; renewable integration; transmission planning; wide area controls;
Conference_Titel :
Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2727-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1944-9925
DOI :
10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345250
