Coast to gorgeous coast – Australia has only 200MW wind power at 8am

This NemWatch screenshot shows how wind is completely useless at times. Unless we shut the Nation down during wind droughts we need to keep a full complement of reliable generation ready to go at any time.

Australia runs on coal. See how South Australia is pounding their gas plants – even firing up some diesel to cope with the morning rush. Comparing their AEMO demand with NemWatch shows they must be importing about 200MW from Victoria.

6 thoughts on “Coast to gorgeous coast – Australia has only 200MW wind power at 8am”

  1. And at 15:30 (NEM time) it’s a massive 120MW and falling by the minute.

    (By the way Warwick are you aware you can get a clean screen shot of the graph by using the “save” button below it – saves a time captioned png file)

  2. 7.55PM something wrong with the measurements NSW shows 2 MW for small solar and Qld 1 MW but it has been dark for 2 hrs. Maybe some are cheating and running diesels to get the feed in tariff for some it is 70c/kWhr in NSW in Qld it is 55c/kWhr. I recall in Spain some large Solar plants were shining lights joined to the grid onto the solar panels and getting the free money from the feed in tariff,

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