Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 28 November 2022 To 4 December 2022

Posted on Mon 12/05/2022 by TonyfromOz

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 28Nov2022	69.24GWH	2885MW	29.28%	12.4%
Tuesday 29Nov2022	54.40GWH	2267MW	23.01%	9.7%
Wednesday 30Nov2022	61.39GWH	2558MW	25.96%	11.3%
Thursday 1Dec2022	69.76GWH	2907MW	29.50%	12.9%
Friday 2Dec2022	47.11GWH	1963MW	19.92%	8.5%
Saturday 3Dec2022	38.32GWH	1597MW	16.21%	7.1%
Sunday 4Dec2022	68.25GWH	2844MW	28.86%	12.5%
This Week	408.47GWH	2431MW	24.67%	10.6%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 30.29% (Last Week – 30.27%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 218 weeks – 30.31% (Last Week – 30.33%)

Comments for this week.

Every day of this week, wind generation was operating at a lower Capacity Factor (CF) than the year round average, and because of that, the average for the week was also well below that year round average. A couple of days, it was well down on that average, and that dragged the average for this week even lower. Because of that, both long term averages changed very little, and as you can see they are both at around the same, with very little difference between them at all.

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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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