Indigo Shire - renewable energy mapping - Indigo Shire Council

Earth Systems
Mapping and Brokering Local Energy Solutions in Indigo Shire
Figure 6.18: Concentrating PV Dishes (top); Power Tower in Bridgwater VIC (bottom left);
Concentrating PV System (bottom right) [,,] ................................................................. 56
Figure 6.19: Solar energy components and concentrating system [,] ................................................. 59
Figure 6.20: Annual average daily global exposure in Indigo Shire .................................................... 59
Figure 6.21: January average daily global exposure in Indigo Shire (max. condition) ...................... 60
Figure 6.22: June average daily global exposure in Indigo Shire (min. condition) ............................ 60
Figure 6.23: Annual average daily direct normal solar exposure in Indigo Shire .............................. 61
Figure 6.24: January average daily direct normal solar exposure in Indigo Shire (max. condition) 62
Figure 6.25: June average daily direct normal solar exposure in Indigo Shire (min. condition) ...... 62
Figure 6.26: Proposed areas for solar PV plants (representative areas for scale purposes only, not
actual geographical location) ......................................................................................... 66
Figure 6.27: Proposed areas for 20 MW e CST plant (representative areas for scale purposes only,
not actual geographical location) .................................................................................. 66
Figure 7.1: Total cumulative installed global wind capacity in MW e [70] ............................................ 72
Figure 7.2: Installed wind capacity by state [70] .................................................................................... 73
Figure 7.3: Wind large scale installations in Australia [52] ................................................................... 73
Figure 7.4: Wind generators in Victoria (as of August 2011) [71]......................................................... 74
Figure 7.5: Components making up a typical horizontal axis wind turbine [] .................................... 75
Figure 7.6: Vertical Axis Wind Turbines: (a) Darrieus [73] and (b) Savonius wind turbines [] .......... 76
Figure 7.7: Wind power cost projections based on various studies [14] ............................................ 77
Figure 7.8: Victorian wind atlas (wind speed at 65 m) [84] ................................................................... 79
Figure 7.9: Victorian wind map produced by Sustainability Victoria (65 m elevation) [84] ............... 79
Figure 7.10: Indigo Shire wind speed map from the Wind Atlas produced by Sustainability Victoria
(wind speed at 65 m elevation) [84] ............................................................................... 80
Figure 7.11: Proposed areas for wind farms (representative areas for scale purposes only, not
actual geographical location) ......................................................................................... 85
Table 8.1: Summary of LCA bioenergy scenarios vs current practice fossil fuel scenario from IEA
Task 38 [102] .................................................................................................................... 91
Figure 8.2: Shares of energy sources in total global primary energy supply in 2008 (492 EJ) [] ..... 92
Figure 8.3: Shares of global primary biomass sources for energy in 2008 (50.3EJ) [103] ................ 92
Figure 8.4: Share of primary energy sources in world electricity generation in 2008 [103] .............. 93
Figure 8.5: Proportions of Energy Generated from Biomass for Selected Nations [100] .................. 93
Figure 8.6: Bioenergy electricity generation total for Australia [104] .................................................. 94
Figure 8.7: Bioenergy electricity generation by state in Australia [] ................................................... 95
Figure 8.8: bioenergy generators in Victoria []....................................................................................... 96
Figure 8.9: Typical scales of various thermochemical conversion technologies [99] ....................... 97
Figure 8.10: Schematic representation of a gasification process (adapted from []) ......................... 98
Figure 8.11: Simple steam Rankine cycle (adapted from []) ............................................................... 100
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