A look at curtailment through the GSD2024
After reviewing the latest version of our Generator Statistical Digest (GSD), David Leitch shares his top insights about VRE curtailment across the NEM in 2024.
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Highest-ever wind yield … *and* worst wind yield since June 2017!
… it does not seem logical that both can be true, but (from our look at the numbers) it does appear to be!
The early wind farms reaching 20 years: how are they performing?
With Challicum Hills Wind Farm recently celebrating its 20th anniversary, Dan Lee takes a look into the long-term trend of technical and commercial performance of the oldest wind...
Bigger or better: Are newer wind farms outperforming older ones?
Dan Lee looks at twenty years of capacity factors for wind farms to see if they are improving in line with recent discussion and long-term modelling assumptions.
Extended long-term trend of wind production statistics (to the end of August 2023)
For a couple of reasons, I've updated/extended the trend of monthly aggregate statistics for wind farms across the NEM ... now out till the end of August 2023.
Price/MWh Harvest in the 2022 Generator Statistical Digest
Nick Bartels of Greenview Strategic Consulting uses the price energy harvest metric from our GSD2022 data extract to examine the recent performance of each fuel type within the...
Analytical Challenge – choosing what measure to use, for ‘Installed Capacity’
Prompted by a number of different factors in recent times, in this article we explain why assessing a units 'Installed Capacity' is significantly more complex than it might...
Highlights from the 2020 GSD
David Leitch highlights some themes that stuck out to him as he read through this year's edition of the Generator Statistical Digest - including a look at how...
Cost Confusion
Our guest author, Allan O'Neil, posts an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of an increasingly popular metric - the LCOE (or Levellised Cost of Energy)