Indigo Shire - renewable energy mapping - Indigo Shire Council

Earth Systems
Mapping and Brokering Local Energy Solutions in Indigo Shire
Figures
Figure 2.1: Representation of the Electricity Delivery Model [6] .......................................................... 23
Figure 2.2: High Voltage Shared Electricity Network in Victoria [] ...................................................... 23
Figure 2.3: SP Ausnet supply areas and terminal and zone substations in Indigo Shire area [6] .... 24
Figure 2.4: Location of Wodonga Logic Centre with respect to other Indigo load centres .............. 27
Figure 2.5: Connection Process for Medium-scale Distributed Generation [2] .................................. 28
Figure 3.1: Population map of Indigo Shire ............................................................................................ 31
Figure 3.2: Location of major towns and major industrial energy consumers (~1 MW e shown in
white (including towns), ~10 MW e shown in red) ......................................................... 32
Figure 4.1: Map of Park and Forest Areas in Indigo Shire .................................................................... 33
Figure 4.2: Mountainous areas in Indigo Shire ...................................................................................... 34
Figure 4.3: Farming zone in Indigo Shire ................................................................................................ 35
Figure 4.4: Map of Areas of Cultural Significance in Indigo Shire ....................................................... 36
Figure 4.5: Land constraint areas from combined sources in Indigo Shire ........................................ 37
Figure 5.1: Levelised Cost of Energy [14] ............................................................................................... 40
Figure 6.1: Worldwide annual global solar exposure in kWh/m 2 []....................................................... 42
Figure 6.2: Annual average daily global solar exposure ....................................................................... 43
Figure 6.3: Annual average daily direct normal solar exposure........................................................... 43
Figure 6.4: Rutherglen Daily Global Solar Exposure by Month and Annual Average [] .................... 44
Figure 6.5: Solar operating plants with capacity of more than 30 kW e [] ............................................ 45
Figure 6.6: Martifer Solar PV array (left) []; Schematic of PV Solar generation system (right) []...... 45
Figure 6.7: Installed capacity of Solar PV internationally and in Australia [26,]................................. 46
Figure 6.8: Solar PV large scale installations in Australia [52] ............................................................ 47
Figure 6.9: Australian PV module prices in current AUD [] .................................................................. 48
Figure 6.10: PV System Capital Cost [] ................................................................................................... 48
Figure 6.11: PV Levelised cost of energy [43] ........................................................................................ 49
Figure 6.12: Balance of System Cost and Levelised Cost of Energy forecast [41]. .......................... 49
Figure 6.13: Schematic of Typical Concentrating Solar Plant []........................................................... 50
Figure 6.14: Australia Concentrating Solar Thermal plants [] .............................................................. 51
Figure 6.15 World Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal [] ................................................................. 52
Figure 6.16: Estimated LCOE dependence on system size (normalised to a 100 MWe system with 5
hours’ storage) [50] ......................................................................................................... 52
Figure 6.17 Estimated CSP cost / LCOE reductions (Reproduced from AT Kearney, 2010) [50] ...... 55
ISC1240_Phase_1_Report_Rev0_public report 11