The Discussion Paper provides a ‘conceptual map’ of the R&D effort into renewable energy technologies in Australia to identify research areas that are growing.
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The Discussion Paper provides a ‘conceptual map’ of the R&D effort into RETechs, to assist ARENA in developing their theme-based funding rounds: for example, which are the particular RETechs that are being researched, and to what degree of concentration this is occurring.
The Discussion Paper finds that the R&D effort can be classified into a number of discrete research areas in order of their share of RETechs publications:
Hydrodynamics, inverters and hybrids
- Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ocean power)
- Energy inversion
- Blades and turbines
Solar Cell Technologies B
- Dye sensitized solar cells
- Multijunction photovoltaic cells
- Hydrogen and Biofuel
- Solar-hydrogen systems
- Bio-mass
- Bio-fuels
- Blades and turbines
Wind and converters
- Hybrid wind power (especially diesel-wind hybrid)
- Energy conversion
- Blades and turbines
Building
- Sustainable building
- Blades and turbines
Solar cell technologies A
- Quantum dot/crystalline silicon solar cells
- Modelling for solar cells
Batteries and Geothermal
- Lithium ion battery storage
- Blades and turbines