Join Australia’s leading science communicator and author, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, and wind turbine engineer and host of YouTube’s ‘Engineering with Rosie,’ Dr Rosemary Barnes, to find out all about NSW’s renewable energy transition.
With three out of four of NSW’s remaining coal-fired power stations set to close in the next ten years, we need an energy solution to meet our needs now and for generations to come.
Thankfully NSW is blessed with abundant solar and wind energy resources, which have replaced coal-fired power as the lowest cost source of new build energy. We have enough renewable energy potential to meet our electricity needs many times over. In fact, more than 35% of NSW's energy already comes from renewable sources.
The new electricity network is built on a mix of reliable renewable technologies like solar and wind, supported by large-scale energy storage and delivered by new transmission infrastructure. Let’s find out how these three things work together to power NSW.
“There can be no energy transition, without transmission," says Dr Karl. Find out how ‘electricity super-highways' are a key part in the upgrade of NSW’s electricity network.
New transmission lines will take electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar to where they are needed. But how do wind turbines actually work? Engineer Dr Rosie Barnes is here to break it down for us.
It’s not always windy, and even in NSW the sun isn’t always shining. So, while our state’s renewable energy potential can meet our energy needs many times over, we will still need to save some of that power for a rainy day. Dr Karl’s here to tell you all about Battery Energy Storage Systems, and the role they play in our energy transformation.