Renewable Energy Growth and Challenges in Australia

Literature Review

Contents
1 Introduction 3
2 Research Methodology 3
2.1 Analysis of Statiscal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Survery strategy for research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3 Results 4
4 Discussion 5
4.1 Renewable energy growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2 Types of source distribution and its shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3 Factors affecting the energy growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5 Conclusion 9
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1 Introduction
According to the history of industrial civilization, the underdeveloped or agrar-
ian economy was based on solar and biomass energy as the basic needs were
limited to food and survival. But with economic development, the need of
energy became more complex and firewood based biomass energy became in-
sufficient for people. In that scenario, the European and UK people were more
prone to the hydropower. (Weitemeyer et al., 2014)
Moreover, the nineteenth century has observed the discovery of coal, natural
gas and nuclear power which converted the overall energy transition structure of
the world. However, with stages of economic development, the energy transition
structures also bring some significant issues like the greenhouse gases, pollution,
environmental degradation. Therefore, in the present day, the renewable energy
sources become highly significant aiming the negative factors of climate change.
Moreover, the limitation of fossil fuels is another reason behind the adaptation of
renewable sources of energy. According to the global energy consumption data,
Australia with its geographic and climatic conditions is rich with renewable
sources but the long-term renewable policies with cost, alliance and political
factors are affecting the renewable energy usage.
2 Research Methodology
According to the global geographical data, Australia is the sunniest and windiest
country of the world. The data also states that the country can power up 500
times more with proper usage of renewable sources. In the past, the power
sector of Australia was dominated by the high scale of hydropower.
2.1 Analysis of Statiscal Data
The impact of different power policies is significant here. To determine the
impact of renewable resources on the power sector of Australia a comparative
study is important here. Therefore, the research paper has included other coun-
tries like China, US, UK, Germany to compare the energy resource issues with
Australia(Bird et al., 2014). This is a descriptive and analytic research based on
the standard data provided by different journal articles as well as international
environmental groups like OECD, World Resource Institute, World Council on
Renewable energy etc. The scientific research methodology is based on the
random or probability sampling.
2.2 Survery strategy for research
The simple random sampling has provided the primary and secondary data for
this research. The primary data method includes the online survey for Aus-
tralian population using diverse age groups as more than 80% of the Australian
population is active on the internet. The survey participants are invited via
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