Sustainable Energy: Established Renewables

Interactive discussions about the future of established renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar energy

Renewable energy is sourced from natural resources such as wind, sunlight, geothermal energy, hydropower or biofuels. While all of these options have been explored to varying degrees, wind and solar power are currently considered the most established and viable sources of sustainable energy.  But can these clean sources of energy really provide us with a viable commercial alternative to non-renewables?

Associate Professor Bassam Dally and a panel of experts discussed the role that established renewables will play in the move away from fossil fuels. Together they examined whether these sources of energy are efficient enough to be cost-effective and produce enough energy to satisfy future requirements.

Click here to listen to the entire seminar, or click on the individual links below.

To view video material from this event, please visit the RIAus website.

Speaker	Topic	Audio-Visual
	Introduction Speaker: Assoc Prof Bassam Dally Centre for Energy Technology Head, School of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide	MP3 Download (1.6MB)
	Wind turbine energy generation: design, efficiencies and challenges Speaker: Dr Maziar Arjomandi Centre for Energy Technology University of Adelaide	MP3 Download (3.3MB)PowerPoint (1MB)
	Solar thermal energy Speaker: Wes Stein Manager, National Solar Energy Centre CSIRO	MP3 Download (3.9MB) PowerPoint (1.1MB)
	Large-scale wind turbines Speaker: Andrew Stock General Manager, Major Development Projects Origin Energy	MP3 Download (4.2MB) PowerPoint (0.5MB)
	Infrastructre requirements and the Green Grid Study Speaker: Catherine Way Renewable SA	MP3 Download (2.7MB) PowerPoint (1.7MB)