BJCE Australia’s Leo Pearce (Asset Manager) and Isabel Nelson (Community Engagement Officer) recently zoomed into Goulburn High’s Year 8 STEM class to give the students some insight into the workings of their local wind and solar farms. As part of the ‘virtual’ visit, Leo showed the stu...
Large-scale climate modes of variability could also affect the likelihood of grid-wide supply issues through their role in modulating weather systems over Australia. For example, a theoretical optimal set of wind farms would still be exposed to substantial interannual variability due to the influence...
Wind farms in Australia have encountered a range of community responses, sometimes resulting in opposition. This has caused the wind energy industry to evaluate and amend their community engagement practices. Community Engagement Plans detail wind farm developers' internal intentions' for stakeholder ...
Those destroying the Queensland bushland for wind farms in the “reckless race” toward renewables are “forgetting the first principle of what they’re trying to do” which is improve the environment, says Nationals Leader David Littleproud. “What they’re doing is actually degrading ...
Table 1. Operational CE Wind Farms (England). NameLocationLocal Planning AuthorityDeveloperMW (max. installed capacity)No. TurbinesSubject to AppealDate Planning ApprovalOperational Date Furness Windfarm Furness, Nr Kirby in Furness South Lakeland District Council Baywind Energy Cooperative 2.5 5 NO 199...
“In our results, building 35 GW of offshore wind farms reduces the average capacity factor of non-variable generation capacity and causes a change in the mix of such capacity. The change is a shift of several GW of capacity from types with higher fixed costs and lower operating costs to ...
By Richard D. Patton South Australia (SA) is the smallest state in Australia and its government has made a goal of being a leader in renewable energy production. As a consequence, it has a large amount of installed wind and solar generation. After a seri
It falls in the electorate of Hume, which is represented by the Liberal MP Angus Taylor. He has told the ABC he does not support wind farms either but for different reasons. “The economics don’t work. Right now wind requires massive subsidies over and above other means of reducin...
Guest essay by Michael MacDonald Energy Performance Measurement Institute (EPMI) Electricity generation using wind and solar energy has come a long way over the last five decades. Governmental subsidies have come a long way also, from mainly fostering fo
Because of the change of bidding rules in 2007, our estimates can be interpreted as the lower bound of the true joint learning rates. Our model also indicates that most learning about the installation and operation of wind farms was common to the whole industry (i.e., we found little ...