摘要
Recently,renewable energy resources and their impacts have sparked a heated debate to resolve the Australian energy crisis.There are many projects launched throughout the country to improve network security and reliability.This paper aims to review the current status of different renewable energy resources along with their impacts on society and the environment.Besides,it provides for the first time the statistics of the documents published in the field of renewable energy in Australia.The statistics include information such as the rate of papers published,possible journals for finding relative paper,types of documents published,top authors,and the most prevalent keywords in the field of renewable energy in Australia.It will focus on solar,wind,biomass,geothermal and hydropower technologies and will investigate the social and environmental impacts of these technologies.