Episode 26
4:54
Australian Wind and a new wind technology
AEMO's Statement of Opportunities update on which wind projects are actually committed, plus Sheer Wind's hexagonal funnel turbine.
WindAEMO
Episode 19
8:59
Best performing NEM turbines
Three months of NEM data, ranked: capacity factor, dollars per MW installed, and wind-weighted average price. Hallett 1 wins twice.
Wind
Episode 17
4:24
AEMO Technical report on wind integration
AEMO expects 9 GW more wind on top of today's 2.7 GW. In South Australia installed wind already exceeds minimum demand.
AEMOWind
Episode 14
2:52
Wind Power - From under the sea
MIT's Alex Slocum wants to anchor floating offshore turbines with hollow 30m concrete spheres — pumped storage, anchor and artificial reef in one.
WindStorage
Episode 12
5:33
Wind Analytics the best place for your turbine?
Does WindAnalytics' siting software beat the layman's approach of putting the turbine as high and as clear as you can?
Wind
Episode 11
4:54
SXSW Eco Festival Texas
From SXSW Eco in Austin: Fluitec Wind, predicting turbine failures from operating data so maintenance happens before the breakdown.
WindInternational
Episode 10
6:05
Wind capture and storage
Notrees in West Texas pairs a wind farm with 36 MW of lead-acid battery storage. Forty minutes at full wind, for $22M.
WindStorageInternational
Episode 9
5:30
Australian Air Born Wind Energy Bought by Google
Makani Power — a Sydney engineer's kite-based turbine, built from a forgotten 1970s paper — gets bought by Google.
Wind
Episode 8
7:53
Should you invest in a community wind farm?
Crowdfunding logic, applied to wind. Hepburn raised nearly $10M in community shares — and you don't have to live in the community to buy in.
Wind
Episode 7
4:04
Will PV and Wind crush traditional generation?
Clean Energy Week: Bloomberg says wind and solar are already the cheapest new build, Reuters calls the market “unhelpful”. Both can't be right.
WindSolarMarket design
Episode 4
20:57
Electricity Prices Lower Because of Wind
Ben Burge, CEO of Meridian Energy Australia and Powershop, on how the LRET and wind are pushing the price you pay for electricity down.
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Episode 3
6:05
Musselroe, the largest wind farm in Tasmania
Musselroe comes online — 168 MW, $400M, and the largest wind farm in Tasmania, part-owned by Hydro Tasmania and Shenhua.
Wind
Episode 2
6:36
Wind Integration Inertia: AEMO Special Report
AEMO's Wind Integration Study, read properly: why wind farms don't contribute inertia, and whether they should have to.
AEMOWind