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Article http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jepes.2024.06.001

Reducing Emissions While Maintaining Energy Security: Hydropower or Carbon Capture & Storage?

Xin Gao

The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

*Corresponding author: Xin Gao

Published: June 19,2024

Abstract

Climate change will present Australia with a number of serious social, environmental, and economic challenges. How to use energy more efficiently and environmental-friendly in the future is a gradually emerging problem. The increased penetration of renewables, coupled with an ageing fleet of coal-fired generators, poses the question of where future investment should lie. Hydropower, especially pumped hydroelectric storage (PHS), has the potential to be integrated with wind and solar PV generation to provide a secure and reliable grid at a low cost and with minimal environmental impacts. The cost of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) seems uneconomical due to uncertainty surrounding the future of coal-fired generation, and there are concerns about the safe long-term storage of captured CO2. Based on our research, we recommend focusing investments in hydropower and discouraging the future development of CCS plants. This could be a partial solution to alleviate the energy problem to some extent.

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How to cite this paper

Reducing Emissions While Maintaining Energy Security: Hydropower or Carbon Capture & Storage?

How to cite this paper: Xin Gao. (2024) Reducing Emissions While Maintaining Energy Security: Hydropower or Carbon Capture & Storage? Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems8(1), 1-7.

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jepes.2024.06.001