Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 15May 2023 To 21May 2023

Posted on Mon 05/22/2023 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 15May2023	69.88GWH	2912MW	28.34%	12.2%
Tuesday 16May2023	65.80GWH	2742MW	26.68%	11.3%
Wednesday 17May2023	39.16GWH	1632MW	15.88%	6.6%
Thursday 18May2023	29.88GWH	1245MW	12.11%	5.0%
Friday 19May2023	35.71GWH	1488MW	14.48%	6.0%
Saturday 20May2023	88.12GWH	3672MW	35.73%	15.5%
Sunday 21May2023	115.41GWH	4809MW	46.79%	20.8%
This Week	443.96GWH	2643MW	25.72%	10.9%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 29.54% (Last Week – 29.64%%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 242 weeks – 30.01% (Last Week – 30.02%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update

Thankfully for wind generation, the wind picked up considerably on the Saturday and Sunday, because for the first five days of the week, wind generation was only averaging less than 20% of it’s total Nameplate, ironic really, because when wind generation was highest, those two days are far and away the days of lowest power consumption in any week. Also ironic was that wind had a good day on Sunday, and even on what is a good day, it was still only averaging less than HALF of its total Nameplate. Those two days of higher than average power generation bumped up the average for the week, and that weekly Capacity Factor (CF) came in at 25.72%, still five percent lower than the year round average.

What that did was drag both long term CF figures lower, and as you can see from the 52 week most recent twelve Month Yearly figure, well that CF is now only 29.54%, and there is a largish gap now forming between that figure and the more than four and a half year long term CF figure, now closing in on 30% as well.

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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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