Early stages of output at Golden Plains Wind Farm East

I was speaking with someone earlier today about the large Golden Plains Wind Farm in Victoria … which is in the early stages of commissioning.

There’s information about the project on this ‘About the Project’ page on their website, with the salient points being:

1)  First stage is Golden Plains Wind Farm East – which itself is being represented in the EMMS via three different DUIDs;

2)  Second stage is Golden Plains Wind Farm West – which will be added to the EMMS later by the AEMO (when it’s closer to commissioning).

Together the project will be massive (one of a few ~1,000MW wind farm projects underway).  But even just the first three units add up to a sizeable project.

 

Following the conversation, I’d promised to share some quick snapshots – and thought it would be easiest to do this via this article.  So let’s start with this snapshot from the ‘Unit Dashboard’ widget in  ez2view, focused on the GPWFEST2 unit and looking back 3 days:

Whilst the chart is looking back 3 days from the ‘now’ point of the window (i.e. real time at 18:30 on Friday 20th September 2024), we’ve focused the table on the 17:40 dispatch interval on Thursday 19th September 2024.

At that point, we see that:

1)  The unit output was 11MW (both Target and FinalMW);

2)  There’s constraint activity:

(a)  The ‘V>>SMF2_SMF1_NIL_R5’ Constraint Equation was bound; and

(b)  The GPWFEST2 was on the left-hand side.

Drilling into the ‘Constraint Dashboard’ widget via the hyperlink we set the display up the same way (looking back 3 days, with the table focused on the 17:40 dispatch interval on Thursday 19th September 2024) and we see this:

In this view we can see that the constraint includes all 3 DUIDs for GPWF East on the LHS … but only Unit 2 is operational.  It’s bid at –$1,000/MWh (i.e. well below the CPD Price for the unit) to be dispatched.

 

We’ll look forward to seeing this unit ramp up.