As if we did not have enough challenges already, worth a snapshot from NEMwatch at 16:10 this afternoon to highlight that aggregate production from all wind farms across the NEM (which has been quite strong for a number of days) has dropped below 1,000MW today:
Once the sun drops away this evening things are going to get quite hairy…
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With the April-May 2024 period ending with 3 days during which it blew a gale, this wind powered energy generation provided some small boost to aggregate results in 2024 that disappointed when compared against 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020.
As the sun sets on Thursday 23rd May 2024 (the day of the announcement of the extension to the Eraring service life) we see aggregate wind yield dropping below 500MW.
Geoff Bongers, Nathan Bongers and Andy Boston have prepared this guest authored article following on from their recently published paper about the characterisation and mitigation of renewable droughts in the NEM.
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