Text says:"Securing global wind assets". Links to an article about Windlab, a CSIRO spin-out company. Image of wind turbines. Photo from iStockphoto/Jane Waterbury.  

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Wind turbine.

Our Wind Energy Research Unit has demonstrated Australia’s wind energy potential with pioneering research that has identified wind-farm sites and helps predict their average wind energy yield.

Overviews

 
  • This picture shows the front of the CSIRO Energy Centre and the array of organic photovoltaic cells that line the front of the building.

    We are playing an essential role in researching and developing technologies to achieve the objective of near zero emissions from the use of energy worldwide.

  • Wind turbine

    The Energy Transformed Flagship is developing clean affordable energy and transport technologies for a sustainable future - the first steps towards a hydrogen economy.

Events

 
  • Electricity infrastructure power lines.

    We use ESM to determine the impact of potential future events, policies and technology breakthroughs on the uptake of new technologies in electricity generation and road transport.

  • Wind turbine.

    This video raises issues surrounding low emission distributed generation systems and how they will challenge our ideas about energy supply and where we generate power. (0:30)

  • Houses in western suburbs in Sydney, New South Wales.

    The decisions our developers and planners make today will have profound impacts on the places where we live and work in the future. In this podcast, CSIRO researcher Michael Ambrose talks about the potential the new website yourdevelopment.org has to assist in the building of a greener Australia. (3:12)

Resources

 
  • A hybrid electric vehicle fitted with UltraBattery technology.

    The UltraBattery is an advanced energy storage system with applications for hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The technology will be commercially available in the automotive and motive power sectors in 2009.

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