Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 24 October 2022 To 30 October 2022

Posted on Mon 10/31/2022 by

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By Anton Lang ~

This continuing Series of Posts will detail the daily data for wind generation from all the Industrial Wind Plants on the major Australian Grid. This Series continues the data collection for all Australian wind power which was started on 1 October 2018. The original Series was started to show a definitive and accurate Capacity Factor Percentage for all the Australian wind plants on the main Australian power grid, and this new Series will continue to add to both of those Long Term Capacity Factor averages, shown directly under the Table below.

For an Introduction to this Series, and an explanation for the table, and the background, go to the following Post at the highlighted link. This introductory Post also shows the permanent link to all Posts in this Series.

Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – Introduction And Permanent Link To All Data Post

The total Nameplate for all these wind plants changes as each new wind plant comes on line delivering power to the grid. That current Nameplate is 9854MW, and this is from the current total of 76 wind plants.

Wind Nameplate change from beginning of data collection on Monday 1 October 2018 – (then) 5301MW – (now) 9854MW – (Change) +4553MW (an increase of 86%)

Current Wind Nameplate Capacity – 9854MW

Day
And
Date		 Total
Generated
Power		 Average
Power		 Capacity
Factor (%)		 Power
To
Grid (%)
Monday

24Oct2022

 101.4GWH 4225MW 42.88% 18.1%
Tuesday

25Oct2022

 37.46GWH 1561MW 15.84% 6.7%
Wednesday

26Oct2022

 65.71GWH 2738MW 27.79% 11.7%
Thursday

27Oct2022

 113.18GWH 4716MW 47.86% 20.2%
Friday

28Oct2022

 120.57GWH 5024MW 50.98% 21.3%
Saturday

29Oct2022

 64.10GWH 2671MW 27.11% 12.2%
Sunday

30Oct2022

 75.24GWH 3135MW 31.81% 14.5%
This

Week

 577.66GWH 3439MW 34.90% 15.0%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 30.33% (Last Week – 30.18%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 213weeks – 30.34% (Last Week – 30.32%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update – You can see that there were three days when wind generation was quite high, and again note the irony that even on its best days, wind generation can still only average out at half of its Capacity. Even with those three good days, the average Capacity Factor (CF) for the week was still only a tick under five percent higher than the year round average. You can also see that the long term averages for that CF both rose and the most recent 52 week yearly average has again almost caught up with the longer term average.

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Anton Lang uses the screen name of TonyfromOz, and he writes at this site, PA Pundits International on topics related to electrical power generation, from all sources, concentrating mainly on Renewable Power, and how the two most favoured methods of renewable power generation, Wind Power and all versions of Solar Power, fail comprehensively to deliver levels of power required to replace traditional power generation. His Bio is at this link.

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