Australian Wind Farms Regularly Deliver Tiny Fraction of Their Total Capacity
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 5:35 pm
The Aussies put windmills all over the place at a huge cost.
BIG MISTAKE!!
"If Australia’s wind turbine fleet hadn’t cost power consumers $20 billion to build, the joke would almost be funny."
"The combined total capacity of all of the wind turbines hooked up to the Eastern Grid is 8,132 MW. And yet, notwithstanding being spread across an enormous geographical expanse, Australia’s whirling wonders often struggle to collectively produce more than 200-300 MW of that capacity, representing less than 2-3 percent of all that monumentally expensive generating capacity (see above and below).
The sudden and chaotic 2-3,000 MW collapses in output are a grid manager’s nightmare.
Hopeless doesn’t cover it. No wonder Australia’s grid is on the very brink of collapse."
https://stopthesethings.com/2021/05/12/ ... -capacity/
BIG MISTAKE!!
"If Australia’s wind turbine fleet hadn’t cost power consumers $20 billion to build, the joke would almost be funny."
"The combined total capacity of all of the wind turbines hooked up to the Eastern Grid is 8,132 MW. And yet, notwithstanding being spread across an enormous geographical expanse, Australia’s whirling wonders often struggle to collectively produce more than 200-300 MW of that capacity, representing less than 2-3 percent of all that monumentally expensive generating capacity (see above and below).
The sudden and chaotic 2-3,000 MW collapses in output are a grid manager’s nightmare.
Hopeless doesn’t cover it. No wonder Australia’s grid is on the very brink of collapse."
https://stopthesethings.com/2021/05/12/ ... -capacity/