Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 6 March 2023 To 12 March 2023

Posted on Mon 03/13/2023 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 6Mar2023	112.94GWH	4706MW	45.79%	17.9%
Tuesday 7Mar2023	125.56GWH	5232MW	50.91%	20.0%
Wednesday 8Mar2023	104.06GWH	4336MW	42.19%	17.5%
Thursday 9Mar2023	62.44GWH	2602MW	25.32%	10.8%
Friday 10Mar2023	35.06GWH	1461MW	14.22%	6.0%
Saturday 11Mar2023	41.56GWH	1732MW	16.85%	7.5%
Sunday 12Mar2023	58.53GWH	2439MW	23.73%	10.9%
This Week	540.15GWH	3215MW	31.28%	12.5%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 29.95% (Last Week – 29.97%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 232 weeks – 30.21% (Last Week – 30.21%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update

Here you can see that the week started off well for wind generation, with three days when it was very high, and yet again, note the irony here when I say very high as even on the day when wind generation was highest across the whole day, it was still only operating at just half of its total Nameplate. Then, following those three days of large power generation, there were two low days, and two very low days with Friday’s power generation less than half of that already low year round average. So, with three large power generation days, the average for the week was barely one percent higher than the year round average. Because of that, there was no move at all for the longest term average, and the most recent 52 week yearly average fell marginally, still below 30%.

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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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