China's largest wind energy company Goldwind have partnered the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia to establish the country's first ever laboratory to test renewable wind technology.

 

中国最大的风力发电公司金风科技与澳大利亚新南威尔士大学合作建造澳洲首个风能技术测试实验室。

 

The 2 million Australian dollars (1.45 million U.S. dollars) in funding is the first stage of a memorandum¹ of understanding signed at the UNSW China Center Inauguration² in Shanghai earlier this year, which aims to bolster³ ongoing⁴ research between the two organisations.

 

"Wind power, along with photovoltaics, is the most important renewable energy for the future," world-leading power systems engineer at UNSW Professor Joe Dong said on Friday.

 

"Further investment from Goldwind will also fund research projects covering wind power studies, energy internet, wind turbine noise control and water processing technologies."

 

But while wind is very much an established technology that accounts for 33.8 percent of Australia's renewable supply and 5.7 percent of the country's overall power production, Dong said "there are still some remaining problems to be solved in efficiency, stability and frequency control."

 

Because Australia's energy grid⁵ requires electricity to be delivered at a frequency of exactly 50 Hz, generation can sometimes be disrupted when wind speeds change rapidly.

 

"Currently, we do not have a facility in Australia to test wind turbines before connecting to the grid and so we must do this in the United States or Europe, which is very expensive -- and the foreign electricity grids⁶ don't perfectly⁷ mimic⁸ the Australian system," Dong explained.

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