Chinese renewable energy giant backs Australia's first wind technology test lab

SYDNEY - China's largest wind energy company, Goldwind, has partnered with the University of New South Wales in Australia to establish the country's first ever laboratory to test renewable wind technology.

The 2 million Australian dollars ($1.45 million) in funding is the first stage of a memorandum of understanding signed at the UNSW China Center Inauguration in Shanghai earlier this year, which aims to bolster ongoing research between the two organizations.

"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 Aug 17.