Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – 11Sep 2023 To 17Sep 2023

Posted on Sun 09/17/2023 by

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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

11Sep2023

 32.16GWH 1340MW 13.04% 5.7%
Tuesday

12Sep2023

 49.24GWH 2052MW 19.97% 8.9%
Wednesday

13Sep2023

 39.84GWH 1660MW 16.15% 7.1%
Thursday

14Sep2023

 97.12GWH 4047MW 39.38% 17.7%
Friday

15Sep2023

 77.59GWH 3233MW 31.46% 14.2%
Saturday

16Sep2023

 91.32GWH 3805MW 37.02% 17.9%
Sunday

17Sep2023

 66.26GWH 2761MW 26.87% 13.4%
This

Week

 453.53GWH 2700MW 26.27% 12.0%

Long Term Capacity Factor – 52 weeks – 29.51% (Last Week – 29.82%)

Long Term Capacity Factor – 259 weeks – 30.36% (Last Week – 30.38%)

Comments for this week.

Weekly Update

Again, the variability of wind generation is highlighted this wee, where there are three days when power generation was really low, and those days above average were only just above average, and because of that, overall power generation was lower than that year round average. As a result of this, the Capacity Factor (CF) for this week was four percent lower than the year round average, and that dragged both of those long term CF percentages lower. The corresponding week (minus one) for last year which dropped off the most recent 52 week average was a week of very high CF percentage, and because this week now added onto that year’s total was lower, then there was a large drop in that 52 week average for CF. Because of that, the the gap between the two percentages ‘blew out’ now almost one percent. (actual is 0.85%) That variability  difference between these two long term figures changes on a week to week basis, with last week being a very good week for wind generation, and this week being below average, perfectly highlighting the fact that wind generation cannot be relied upon to give stability in power generation. It changes on that week by week basis. It changes on a day to day basis, and it varies sometimes quite wildly on an hour to hour basis. And with these extremities in power generation that are so prevalent with wind generation, then other sources of stable power generation are required to come on line and provide that stability of overall power generation that is a fundamental requirement of a functional minute by minute operation of the electrical power grid.

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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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