Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 23 January 2023 To 29 January 2023

Posted on Mon 01/30/2023 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 – 10277MW

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

23Jan2023

 42.45GWH 1769MW 17.21% 7.0%
Tuesday

24Jan2023

 41.47GWH 1728MW 16.81% 6.8%
Wednesday

25Jan2023

 55.48GWH 2312MW 22.50% 8.7%
Thursday

26Jan2023

 58.24GWH 2427MW 23.62% 9.6%
Friday

27Jan2023

 57.57GWH 2399MW 23.34% 9.1%
Saturday

28Jan2023

 70.48GWH 2937MW 28.58% 11.4%
Sunday

29Jan2023

 34.63GWH 1443MW 14.04% 5.9%
This

Week

 360.32GWH 2144MW 20.87% 8.4%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 30.13% (Last Week – 30.21%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 226 weeks – 30.25% (Last Week – 30.29%)

Comments for this week.

There was not one day this week when wind generation reached its average, the closest day being Saturday when it was 28%. On three days, it was below 20%, with Sunday the lowest at just under half that year round average. What that meant was that the average for the week was only just 20%, a full ten percent lower than that year round average, and that meant that both long term averages went lower, and the 52 week yearly average is now getting back down closer to 30%, and that’s the lowest that 52 week average has been for 40 weeks.

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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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