Where are those Semi-Scheduled Wind Farms in Victoria that were reviewed w.r.t. Monday 16th December 2024

Last week on Tuesday 17th December 2024 we posted this ‘Part 2 in a review of bidding, on Monday 16th December 2024 (a focus on VIC Wind Farms)’ article … with interest being for several reasons, including the high temperatures experienced on the previous day (Monday 16th December 2024) and questions about possible high temperature effects on output.

Given that summer 2024-25 is still very young (and with another round of Local Temperature Alerts published just this morning) we’re going to continue delving into what happened – focusing on a smaller subset of the 24 x Wind Farm Stations progressively.

To help readers out as we walk through each in turn, here’s a map we’ve put together to help indicate the location of each of the wind farms:

Click on the image for a larger-resolution view.

This just shows Semi-Scheduled wind farms, which is the focus of this analysis

…. so leaves off a number of Non-Scheduled wind farms, for which there is much less data published.

Because the point of the map is to help readers understand various different possible factors contributing to output profiles (i.e. not just congestion) we’ve deliberately simplified this particular image rather than cluttering with transmission network and so on…