Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 20 February 2023 To 26 February 2023

Posted on Mon 02/27/2023 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 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 20Feb2023	57.52GWH	2397MW	23.32%	9.0%
Tuesday 21Feb2023	107.56GWH	4482MW	43.61%	17.3%
Wednesday 22Feb2023	96.81GWH	4034MW	39.25%	15.9%
Thursday 23Feb2023	102.24GWH	4260MW	41.45%	16.7%
Friday 24Feb2023	121.44GWH	5060MW	49.24%	19.6%
Saturday 25Feb2023	71.83GWH	2993MW	29.12%	12.7%
Sunday 26Feb2023	70.87GWH	2953MW	28.73%	12.7%
This Week	628.27GWH	3739MW	36.39%	14.9%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 30.04% (Last Week – 29.96%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 230 weeks – 30.23% (Last Week – 30.21%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update.

This was one of those rare weeks when power generation from wind was indeed quite high for most of the week. There was one day when it was low, three days when it was around the average, and three days when it was quite high, and again, I can say with some irony, that even on those days when it was high, wind generation was still operating at less than half of its Capacity. So, overall, for the whole week, wind generation operated at a Capacity Factor (CF) of 36.4%, and that was six percent higher than the year round average. Even so, you can see that even with some high days, it’s still not all that much higher than the usual average. This week being relatively high as it was, you can see that it did not have all that much effect on both of those long term averages for the CF. The 52 week most recent yearly average climbed back over 30%, but as you can see, not very much higher 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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