Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 26 December 2022 To 1 January 2023

Posted on Mon 01/02/2023 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 10277MW, and this is from the current total of 79 wind plants.

Wind Nameplate change from beginning of data collection on Monday 1 October 2018 – (then) 5301MW – (now) 10277MW – (Change) +4976MW (an increase of 94%)

Current Wind Nameplate Capacity – 9854MW

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

26Dec2022

 55.70GWH 2321MW 22.58% 10.0%
Tuesday

27Dec2022

 94.68GWH 3945MW 38.39% 15.9%
Wednesday

28Dec2022

 100.89GWH 4204MW 40.91% 17.9%
Thursday

29Dec2022

 69.28GWH 2887MW 28.09% 13.2%
Friday

30Dec2022

 66.26GWH 2761MW 26.87% 12.4%
Saturday

31Dec2022

 54.74GWH 2281MW 22.20% 10.0%
Sunday

1Jan2023

 62.01GWH 2584MW 25.14% 11.0%
This

Week

 503.56GWH 2997MW 29.17% 13.0%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 30.40% (Last Week – 30.37%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 222 weeks – 30.29% (Last Week – 30.30%)

Comments for this week.

Again we have a week with wind generation higher than average on two days and below average on the other five, and this lead to the weekly average being just a tick lower than the year round average. Because that weekly average was so close to the year round average, both of those long term averages changed only by minimal amounts, and because the same week last year was low, then the 52 week average rose by the smallest of margins.

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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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