Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 27 February 2023 To 5 March 2023

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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

27Feb2023

 55.46GWH 2311MW 22.49% 9.3%
Tuesday

28Feb2023

 51.86GWH 2161MW 21.03% 8.5%
Wednesday

1Mar2023

 67.56GWH 2815MW 27.39% 11.2%
Thursday

2Mar2023

 60.55GWH 2523MW 24.55% 10.0%
Friday

3Mar2023

 82.70GWH 3446MW 33.53% 14.1%
Saturday

4Mar2023

 53.37GWH 2224MW 21.64% 9.7%
Sunday

5Mar2023

 88.41GWH 3684MW 35.85% 15.6%
This

Week

 459.91GWH 2737MW 26.64% 11.2%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 29.97% (Last Week – 30.04%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 231 weeks – 30.21% (Last Week – 30.23%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update

There were only two days when wind generation was higher than the yer round average for this week, and two days when it was all but ten percent lower, and three days a little under that average. So, all up for this week, that meant for an average Capacity Factor for the week that was four percent lower than the year round average, and what that did was to drag both of those long term averages a little lower. As you can see again, that average for the most recent 12 Month year has again fallen below 30%, and the longer term average, now almost four and a half years is just a tick higher than that 30% mark.

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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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