Well, what a crazy month of May it’s been, in terms of NEM-wide wind yield … from bust to boom (and perhaps then back again by the end of the month).
After the first ~28 days in the month being perhaps described as ‘downright disappointing’, the past ~36 hours have cranked up:
1) Earlier today we’d written ‘Aggregate wind production NEMwide ramps up (close to all-time maximum!) to round out an otherwise low-yield May 2024’;
2) But this evening we see the InitialMW for the 20:40 dispatch interval (i.e. SCADA snapshot at 20:35) has reached 8,251MW and looks set to climb still for another hour or so. This is captured in this NEMwatch for the 20:40 dispatch interval:
For those who have been following us here on WattClarity, that’s in excess of what was the the all-time record for wind production of 8,132MW (set at 19:20 on Friday evening 7th July 2023).
We’ll check back in the morning to see how much further this has climbed…
PS1 … later Thursday evening 30th May 2024
At this point it looks like:
1) The highest point this evening (at least thus far) was at 8,431MW … SCADA snapshot at 21:00 (so InitialMW for the 21:05 dispatch interval)
2) and the wind production has slowly started to decline
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