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.
Levellised Cost of Energy (LCOE)
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.
Villain #5c – too much focus on COST, not enough focus on VALUE
Some thoughts (triggered by the latest wave of focus on "cost" on social media this week) about why we need to rapidly shift our focus to what customers "value" and the market needs.
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)