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

Posted on Mon 03/27/2023 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 20Mar2023	112.05GWH	4669MW	45.43%	19.2%
Tuesday 21Mar2023	66.24GWH	2760MW	26.86%	11.6%
Wednesday 22Mar2023	39.91GWH	1663MW	16.18%	7.1%
Thursday 23Mar2023	41.30GWH	1721MW	16.75%	7.1%
Friday 24Mar2023	60.74GWH	2531MW	24.63%	10.7%
Saturday 25Mar2023	76.29GWH	3179MW	30.93%	14.1%
Sunday 26Mar2023	44.66GWH	1861MW	18.11%	8.3%
This Week	441.19GWH	2626MW	25.55%	11.2%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 29.99% (Last Week – 29.92%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 234 weeks – 30.17% (Last Week – 30.19%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update

Again we have a week when wind generation had one good day, one average day, and five days below average, with three of those five days very low, not much higher than half that average. All of that totalled out for the week with an average of just 25.55%, and that was five percent lower than the year round average. That meant that the long term average fell marginally, and with last year’s corresponding week very low, then the 52 most recent year average went marginally higher, and still under 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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