Wind Power Generation Intermittency – It’s Worse Than You Think It Is – Introduction | PA Pundits - International. By Anton Lang ~ Introduction We have all heard that wind power generation is intermittent, that it goes up and down on a daily basis. However, is that really all that much of a problem, and if so, how big a problem is it? We have also heard that constructing more wind plants will go towards alleviating this problem. Well, it is in fact quite a large problem, and constructing more of those wind plants is making the problem worse. Macarthur Wind Plant In Victoria Australia For many years now, I have been looking at wind power generation here in Australia, and in fact recording and keeping wind generation data on a daily basis now for more than four years.
So, six Months back now, in a task which took three Months, I went back over that daily data, back for a little more than two years, and collated all the falls for wind generation to see if it was just a matter of general ups and downs, or if those falls were large in scale. 1. Wind Generation Sustained Power Loss OzWindPowerGenerationTFO. Net Zero Casualties - Rite-ON! Rafe Champion guest post. The failure of wind power in South Australia. This work is supported by the Energy Realists of Australia.
See the site for more information on Casualties on the Road to Net Zero. SA is the pioneer wind state and the first to experience the rapid increase in power prices that hastened the demise of the local car industry. They literally blew up the last of their coal-fired power stations although they still have gas which is just as well because during wind droughts they live on gas and coal power from Victoria. RE enthusiasts laud SA as an RE powerhouse, the wonder of the world and the shape of things to come across Australia. The chart below shows the amount of wind power generated in South Australia hour by hour through August to date.
From the 12th to the 18th the supply was mostly under the line and consequently they were importing power every day of that week at breakfast and dinnertime. For more instructions on wind watching check out the addendum to this post from the Energy Realists of Australia. Wind Power Generation Intermittency – It’s Worse Than You Think It Is – Introduction | PA Pundits - International. Australia Wind Power Generation TFO | PA Pundits - International. Windpower set to destroy Victorian baseload power just as it did in South Australia. Crash Test Dummy Update: Data analysis thanks to Tom Quirk In the South Australian experiment total wind power capacity is now far above the average state demand most hours of the day. This effectively destroys any economic case for cheap baseload power (I hear that was the aim). This fleet of unreliable generators is being supported by forced subsidies through power bills from all around Australia. Sadly, despite this rain of money falling in SA, those funds end up with renewable investors, not South Australian consumers who pay some of the highest rates in the world.
These legislated subsidies have fed so much wind power that sometimes the state produces more power than it can use. That excess power will be exported, but may or may not be actually useful at whatever time it happens. Unless it happens at peak-time, it will be eating into the efficiency of baseload providers in other states. This volatility appears to make freak wholesale price spikes more likely. Jo A conclusion.
More South Australian Grid Instability: “No Way Renewable Energy can be Blamed” | Watts Up With That? Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Major employers are getting fed up, as South Australia, rapidly becoming the world’s renewable energy crash test dummy, has again experienced a costly unscheduled blackout. BHP issues jobs warning after another SA blackoutSouth Australia’s electricity system separated from the national power grid overnight, prompting a stern warning from BHP Billiton about threats to Australian jobs and investment.About 200,000 homes and businesses lost power for over an hour, but BHP’s Olympic Dam operations in the north of the state were interrupted for about four hours.The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) confirmed today that the disconnection happened at 1.33am, due to “an issue on the Victorian transmission network, impacting the flow via the Heywood Interconnector to South Australia”.
Read more: Read more: Same link as above Like this: Like Loading... Australian Energy Market Operator report says wind farms were the ultimate cause of blackout, network withstood pylon downings | Watts Up With That? While ecos and wind farm proponents tried to blame the blackout on downed powerlines, a detailed report from AEMO shows it was actually wind farms that were the cause. Electricity pylons near Melrose in South Australia’s Mid North were toppled in the storm Source: ABC News Australia From the Institute of Public Affairs | Australia’s leading free market think tank 5 October 2016 PRELIMINARY AEMO SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BLACKOUT REPORT: WIND RESPONSIBLE The Australian Energy Market Operator’s preliminary report into the recent South Australian blackout reveals that the primary reason for the total loss of power was a sudden reduction in wind power being fed into the electricity network, according to free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. said Director of Research Brett Hogan.
“The South Australian Government and the renewables industry can no longer credibly argue that the reasons for the fault relied solely on the weather. A copy of the Preliminary Report is available here. Event.