This page lists group scientific publications. For individual publication lists of our group members, please visit their profiles. Reports from the group can be found under Resources. Media publications can be found at this link.

2024#

Timothy Weber, Andrew Blakers, David Firnando Silalahi, Kylie Catchpole, Anna Nadolny, ‘Grids dominated by solar and pumped hydro in wind-constrained sunbelt countries’, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 308, 15 May 2024, 118354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2024.118354.

Timothy Weber, Ryan Stocks, Andrew Blakers, Anna Nadolny, Cheng Cheng, ‘A global atlas of pumped hydro systems that repurpose existing mining sites’, Renewable Energy, 2024, 120113, ISSN 0960-1481, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.120113.

2023#

David Firnando Silalahi, Andrew Blakers, Cheng Cheng, 2023, ‘100% Renewable Electricity in Indonesia’, Energies, 17(1), 3, https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/1/3.

David Firnando Silalahi, Andrew Blakers, 2023, ‘Global Atlas of Marine Floating Solar PV Potential’, Solar, 3, 416-433. https://doi.org/10.3390/solar3030023.

2022#

Lucy Roberts, Bin Lu, Kylie Catchpole, 2022, ‘Effect of La Niña weather conditions on operation of a future 100% renewable grid in Australia’, 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Singapore, Singapore, 2022, pp. 116-119, doi: 10.1109/ISGTAsia54193.2022.10003637.

Zainul Abdin, Kaveh Khalilpour, Kylie Catchpole, 2022, ‘Projecting the levelized cost of large scale hydrogen storage for stationary applications’, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 270, 15 October 2022, 116241, doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2022.116241.

Cheng Cheng, Natalia Pereira Gutierrez, Andrew Blakers, and Matthew Stocks, 2022, ‘GIS-based solar and wind resource assessment and least-cost 100 % renewable electricity modelling for Bolivia’, Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume 69, August 2022, Pages 134-149, doi: 10.1016/j.esd.2022.06.008.

David Firnando Silalahi, Andrew Blakers, Bin Lu, and Cheng Cheng, 2022, ‘Indonesia’s Vast Off-River Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Potential’, Energies, 15(9), 3457, https://doi.org/10.3390/en15093457.

Cheng Cheng, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, and Bin Lu, 2022, ‘100% renewable energy in Japan’, Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 255, 115299, ISSN 0196-8904, doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115299.

Anna Nadolny, Cheng Cheng, Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, and Matthew Stocks, 2022, ‘Fully electrified land transport in 100% renewable electricity networks dominated by variable generation’, Renewable Energy, vol. 182, pp 562-577, ISSN 0960-1481, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.039.

Andrew Blakers, Anna Nadolny, Ryan Stocks, 2022, ‘The Bluefield Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Atlas’, Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 155, part 2, 2022, pp. 198-201, ISSN 0035-9173/22/020198-04.

2021#

David Firnando Silalahi, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng and Liam Hayes, 2021, ‘Indonesia’s Vast Solar Energy Potential’, Energies, 14(17), 5424, doi: 10.3390/en14175424.

Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Thang Nam Do, 2021, ‘Low-cost, low-emission 100% renewable electricity in Southeast Asia supported by pumped hydro storage’, Energy, vol. 236, 121387, ISSN 0360-5442, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121387.

Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, 2021, ‘The observed cost of high penetration solar and wind electricity’, Energy, vol. 233, 121150, ISSN 0360-5442, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.121150.

Zainul Abdin, Chunguang Tang, Yun Liu, Kylie Catchpole, 2021, ‘Large-scale stationary hydrogen storage via liquid organic hydrogen carriers’, iScience, Volume 24, Issue 9, 102966, September 24 2021, doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102966.

Liam Hayes, Matthew Stocks Andrew Blakers, 2021, ‘Accurate long-term power generation model for offshore wind farms in Europe using ERA5 reanalysis’, Energy, vol. 229, 120603, ISSN 0360-5442, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.120603.

Sunil Prasad Lohani, Andrew Blakers, 2021, ‘100% renewable energy with pumped-hydro-energy storage in Nepal’, Clean Energy, vol. 5, issue 2, pp. 243-253, June 2021, doi: 10.1093/ce/zkab011.

Marta Victoria, Nancy Haege, Ian Marius Peters, Ron Sinton, Arnulf Jäger-Waldau, Carlos del Cañizo, Christian Breyer, Matthew Stocks, Andrew Blakers, Izumi Kaizuka, Keiichi Komoto, Arno Smets, 2021, ‘Solar photovoltaics is ready to power a sustainable future’, Joule, vol. 5, issue 5, pp. 1041-1056, May 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2021.03.005.

Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, 2021, ‘A review of pumped hydro energy storage’, Progress in Energy, vol. 3, issue 2, 022003, March 2021, doi: 10.1088/2516-1083/abeb5b.

Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Cheng Cheng, Anna Nadolny, 2021, ‘A zero-carbon, reliable and affordable energy future in Australia’, Energy, vol. 220, 119678, ISSN 0360-5442, Apr. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.119678.

Matthew Stocks, Ryan Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, Andrew Blakers, 2021, ‘Global Atlas of Closed-Loop Pumped Hydro Energy Storage’, Joule, vol. 5, issue 1, pp. 270-284, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.015.

2019#

Cheng Cheng, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, 2019, ‘Pumped hydro energy storage and 100 % renewable electricity for East Asia’, Global Energy Interconnection, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 386-392, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.gloei.2019.11.013.

Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks, Bin Lu, Cheng Cheng, Ryan Stocks 2019, ‘Pathway to 100% Renewable Electricity’, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1828-1833, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2938882.

Presentation by Matthew Stocks at HydroVision, Portland, July 2019, Development of a Global Atlas of Off-River Pumped Hydro Storage.

Presentation by Andrew Blakers for the 46th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, Chicago, June 2019, 100% Renewables.

2018#

Presentation by Andrew Blakers for the World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Hawaii, June 2018, Pumped hydro storage and 100% renewable electricity.

Bin Lu, Matthew Stocks, Andrew Blakers, Kirsten Anderson 2018, ‘Geographic information system algorithms to locate prospective sites for pumped hydro energy storage’, Applied Energy, vol. 222, 15 July 2018, pp. 300-312, ISSN 0306-2619, doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.03.177.

2017#

Presentation by Andrew Blakers for the Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference, Melbourne, December 2017, Pumped hydro storage and 100% renewable electricity.

Presentation by Bin Lu for the Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference, Melbourne, December 2017, Modelling 100% renewables in South Australia.

Video interview discussing renewables in Australia (mp4 368 MB – open in new tab to play) with Matt Stocks on ABC Breakfast, 26 August 2017.

Presentation by Andrew Blakers for the ARENA Showcase at Parliament House, Canberra, August 2017, Pumped hydro storage and 100% renewable electricity.

Andrew Blakers, Bin Lu, Matthew Stocks 2017, ‘100% renewable electricity in Australia’, Energy, vol. 133, 15 August 2017, pp. 471-482, ISSN 0360-5442, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.05.168. Download this paper (PDF, 3.4 MB)

Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Matthew Stocks 2017, ‘90–100% renewable electricity for the South West Interconnected System of Western Australia’, Energy, vol. 122, 1 March 2017, pp. 663-674, ISSN 0360-5442, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.01.077. Download this paper (PDF, 3.3 MB)

2015#

Bin Lu, Andrew Blakers, Xiaolei Li, and Matthew Stocks, 2015, ‘Short-Term Off-River Energy Storage to facilitate a 100% wind & photovoltaics scenario for the South West Interconnected System in Western Australia’, 2015 Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference, ed. R. Egan, R. Passey, Australian Photovoltaic Institute, Canberra.

Andrew Blakers 2015 ‘Sustainable Energy Options’, Asian Perspective: October-December 2015, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 559-590.

2014#

Andrew Blakers, 2014, ‘Mass energy storage using off-river pumped hydro’, Light, Energy and the Environment, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper JTh5B.3.

2012#

Andrew Blakers, Joachim Luther, & Anna Nadolny, 2012, ‘Asia Pacific Super Grid: Solar electricity generation, storage and distribution’, Green, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 189-202. Download this paper (PDF, 1 MB)

2010#

Andrew Blakers, Jamie Pittock, Mishka Talent, & F Markham, 2010, ‘Pumped hydro for large scale storage of solar generated electricity in Australia’, Solar 2010, the 48th Australian Solar Energy Society Annual Conference.

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