Australia's wind power dilemma -The windmills are high and cities are far away

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

The image above has been extracted from the Global Wind Atlas.
https://lnkd.in/g-gPrn6z

The image is a GIS/map computation with the factors being wind speed, air density  and roughness.
As one can see, Australia's wind potential is in the south, and mostly offshore..
The windmills required will have to be high, but the cities that they need to power , which are home to the primary residential and industrial centres, are far away to the north.
These centres are currently powered by coal and gas stations ,which are much closer, and distributed across the country.