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.
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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 NEM.
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 initially appear!
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 batteries are dominating the FCAS market, some surprises with capacity factor, and other things
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)