Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 31 October 2022 To 6 November 2022

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 31Oct2022	104.30GWH	4346MW	44.10%	18.6%
Tuesday 1Nov2022	113.59GWH	4733MW	48.03%	19.8%
Wednesday 2Nov2022	109.17GWH	4549MW	46.16%	19.2%
Thursday 3Nov2022	56.73GWH	2364MW	23.99%	10.0%
Friday 4Nov2022	31.15GWH	1298MW	13.17%	5.6%
Saturday 5Nov2022	41.32GWH	1722MW	17.48%	8.1%
Sunday 6Nov2022	40.00GWH	1667MW	16.92%	8.0%
This Week	496.26GWH	2954MW	29.98%	13.0%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 30.39% (Last Week – 30.33%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 214 weeks – 30.34% (Last Week – 30.34%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update – Again we have three days when wind generation was really quite high, and in fact three consecutive days, pretty much of a rarity, and again note the irony that on three good days, power generation was only between 44 and 48%, so not even operating at half of its Nameplate of 9854MW. However, that was offset with the day when it fell below average, and then we had three consecutive days when wind generation was very low. You can see in fact, that for the overall week, the Capacity Factor for wind generation was all but right on the long term average. The 52 week average has again just overtaken (ever so slightly) the more than four years long term average. That is because for this calculation, I take away the corresponding week of last year, and then add in this week for this year, and because of that, this 52 week average varies a little more than the longer term average, even if that variation is only a few tenths of a percent.

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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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