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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Event: Sharon Brettkelly goes to the top of a wind turbine to better understand energy in New Zealand
Description: Sharon Brettkelly (pictured) will go to extreme lengths, in this case, heights, to get to the bottom of a good story.Sharon, who writes for The Newsroom in New Zealand, tells the story this time on The Detail: "Powering New Zealand from a Wellington wind farm".She writes: "When rain poured into our South Island hydro lakes last week, electricity bosses heaved a huge sigh of relief."They’re still wincing from the memories of last winter’s energy crunch, when power became dangerously scarce and wholesale prices shot sky high.“Drough...