An atlas of pumped hydro energy storage

Stocks, Matthew; Lu, Bin; Anderson, Kirsten; Nadolny, Anna; Blakers, Andrew

An atlas of pumped hydro energy storage

dc.contributor.author	Stocks, Matthew	en_AU
dc.contributor.author	Lu, Bin	en_AU
dc.contributor.author	Anderson, Kirsten	en_AU
dc.contributor.author	Nadolny, Anna	en_AU
dc.contributor.author	Blakers, Andrew	en_AU
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-13T03:09:27Z
dc.date.available	2018-04-13T03:09:27Z
dc.date.created	21/09/2017	en_AU
dc.date.issued	2017	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	Australia has many potential sites for pumped hydro energy storage (PHES). In our initial survey, we have found about 22,000 sites – the State and Territory breakdown is shown in the table below. Each site has an energy storage potential between 1 and 200 Gigawatt hours (GWh). The sites identified so far have a combined energy storage potential of around 67,000 GWh. To put this into perspective, to transition to a 100 per cent renewable electricity system 450 GWh of PHES storage would be needed. The potential PHES resource is almost 150 times more than required. Developers can afford to be choosy since only about 20 sites (the best 0.1% of sites) would be required to support a 100% renewable electricity grid.	en_AU
dc.description.sponsorship	Support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) for PHES site searching and the development of cost models for PHES is gratefully acknowledged.	en_AU
dc.format.extent	2 vols	en_AU
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_AU
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142579	en_AU
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en_AU
dc.publisher	Canberra, ACT: 100% Renewable Energy (RE100) Group, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University	en_AU
dc.rights	Author/s retain copyright	en_AU
dc.rights.license	Some figures were created using ArcGIS® software by Esri. ArcGIS® and ArcMap™ are the intellectual property of Esri and are used herein under license.	en_AU
dc.source.uri	http://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/research/phes/	en_AU
dc.title	An atlas of pumped hydro energy storage	en_AU
dc.type	Book	en_AU
dcterms.accessRights	Open Access	en_AU
local.contributor.affiliation	Andrew Blakers, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University	en_AU
local.contributor.affiliation	Matthew Stocks, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University	en_AU
local.description.notes	Responsibility for the views, information or advice expressed herein is not accepted by the Australian Government.	en_AU
local.type.status	Published Version	en_AU