Can Australia Power the Energy-Hungry Asia with Renewable Energy?
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The Paris Agreement points out that countries need to shift away from the existing fossil-fuel-based energy system to limit the average temperature rise to 1.5 or 2 °C. A cost-optimal 100% renewable energy based system is simulated for East Asia for the year 2030, covering demand by power, desalination, and industrial gas sectors on an hourly basis for an entire year. East Asia was divided into 20 sub-regions and four different scenarios were set up based on the level of high voltage grid connection, and additional demand sectors: power, desalination, industrial gas, and a renewable-energy-based synthetic natural gas (RE-SNG) trading between regions. The integrated RE-SNG scenario gives the lowest cost of electricity (€52/MWh) and the lowest total annual cost of the system. Results contradict the notion that long-distance power lines could be beneficial to utilize the abundant solar and wind resources in Australia for East Asia. However, Australia could become a liquefaction hub for exporting RE-SNG to Asia and a 100% renewable energy system could be a reality in East Asia with the cost assumptions used. This may also be more cost-competitive than nuclear and fossil fuel carbon capture and storage alternatives.
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Demand centers for synthetic fuels are often in regions of moderate solar and wind resource conditions, which may be bypassed by imports of synthetic fuels from solar and wind resource rich regions.
“Demand centers for synthetic fuels are often in regions of moderate solar and wind resource conditions, which may be bypassed by imports of synthetic fuels from solar and wind resource rich regions, such as Patagonia [63,65], Maghreb [64], Horn of Africa or Western Australia [186].”
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- Authors
- Gulagi, A., Bogdanov, D., Fasihi, M., & Breyer, C.
- Affiliations
- Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Gulagi, Ashish
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2017-02-08
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 233
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2586239513
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 26
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- FWCI
- 4.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
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- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Tekes (40101/14)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Energy Engineering and Power Technology › Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Electric Power System Optimization
- Keywords
- 100% renewable energy, East Asia, long-distance power transmission, desalination, industrial gases, carbon capture and storage, Paris Agreement
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