A week of windy conditions in the NEM
News coverage in the east has included coverage of the wild weather in the west, over the WA Day long weekend. So it should be no surprise that we’re set for wind yield to ramp up further over the next few days.
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Noting the dust storm on Monday 26th May 2025 – and impact on electricity supply-demand
Belatedly noting the dust storm that past through South Australia on Monday 26th May 2025, which Andrew Miskelly of Weatherzone documented in a video on Bsky.
New all-time record for NEMwide production from Wind on Monday 26th May 2025
Looking back at Monday evening 26th May 2025, there was indeed a new all-time wind production record (which smashed the earlier record set almost exactly a year earlier).
High wind yield in recent days … but *not* a new all-time record
A look back over the strong wind farm production over recent days, to Monday 2nd September 2024.
Might get close to a new all-time record for wind production late this weekend?
An article from Weatherzone prompts a look (via ez2view) at forecast aggregate Wind Farm Capability in the coming days - we might come close to a new record.
Wild winds in TAS drive aggregate instantaneous Wind Farm capacity factor close to 100%
Anthony Sharwood's article ‘Wild winter winds hit 156 km/h in Tas, 128 km/h on mainland’ prompts me to have a quick look at wind production in Tasmania in recent days.
It could be a high wind yield week ahead in the NEM?
A social media update talking about forecast high wind speeds in the coming week prompts me to check forecast aggregate wind farm production.
Has the past 7 days seen more Wind Farm output than ever before?
We've clocked over into Friday 26th July 2024 - here's a quick record of how wind yield from Wind Farms across the NEM has been on a sustained high the past week.
Has the ‘wind drought’ that plagued 2024 Q2 ended?
A quick look (on Sunday 17th July 2024) at recent NEM-wide wind production patterns into 2024 Q3.
Unusual wind direction to elevate wind power
Ashleigh Madden of Weatherzone reports on some unusual weather activity scheduled to impact QLD, NSW, and SA wind generation - stemming from a high pressure system moving towards the Tasman sea.
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!
How predictable is the wind (a short Case Study of Thursday evening 30th May 2024)?
An (initial and) short review of the solid block of high aggregate wind yield over the ~3 day date range (late Tuesday 28th May 2024 to late Friday 31st May 2024) ... and how much this was expected in advance.
New all-time record, for NEM-wide wind production on Thursday evening 30th May 2024
A short note (on Thursday evening 30th May 2024) to record the NEM-wide wind production exceeding the prior 'all time' record, set 11 months previously. More remarkable after a very lacklustre last ~8 weeks.
Aggregate wind production NEMwide ramps up (close to all-time maximum!) to round out an otherwise low-yield May 2024
Unlike the first ~28 days in the month of May 2024, the aggregate production of power from Wind Farms across the NEM has ramped up from late Tuesday 28th May and reached a high point Thursday morning 30th May 2024 only 371MW below the all-time...
(Easily* the) highest aggregate wind production, thus far in May 2024
It’s Wednesday morning, 29th May 2024 and we're seeing what's easily the highest aggregate instantaneous production from Wind Farms in the month of May 2024.
NEM-wide wind generation above 6,000MW for the first time in ~3 weeks
A short article capturing how NEM-wide wind production rose above 6,000MW briefly in the morning of Tue 23rd April 2024 ... first time since the afternoon of Tue 2nd April 2024.
Updated long-range trend of aggregate wind production statistics
An accompanying article, to update this trend of long-range production statistics for all wind farms (aggregated) across the NEM.
Will we see new ‘All-Time-Max’ wind across the NEM on Saturday morning 8th July 2023?
Looks like we're ramping up to a new all-time maximum for NEM-wide wind production ... perhaps?
Updated monthly statistics for NEM-wide wind production … to the end of August 2022
A quick updated look at how Aggregate Wind-Farm Production has trended since 2010 to now.
Updated monthly statistics for NEM-wide wind production
It’s 1st April 2022, and I have not checked these stats in NEMreview v7 for a while, so I thought I would have a quick look at how a number of the key stats are trending: Quick notes about statistics: 1) Not annotated on the...