{"id":330511,"date":"2024-05-29T18:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330511"},"modified":"2024-05-29T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:07:59","slug":"night-time-wind-power-fails-across-the-entire-continent-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330511","title":{"rendered":"Night Time Wind Power Fails Across the Entire Continent of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First published JoNova<\/a>; Remember all those assurances that the wind always blows somewhere? Not so much on the night of the 27th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another wind drought pulls combined renewables output below last year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of Australia\u2019s green energy transition is mostly one of new peaks in output and share of renewables, but there inevitably ups and downs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last few days have seen another so-called wind energy \u201cdrought\u201d \u2013 the second in as many months. Autumn is \u201ctraditionally\u201d the season with lowest wind outputs, but the lull this year has pushed the combined output of renewables below its level of last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graph above from ITK Services principal David Leitch, a contributor to Renew Economy and co-host of Renew Economy\u2019s popular and weekly Energy Insiders <\/a>podcast, shows that the share of variable renewable energy (VRE, or solar and wind), has fallen below last year\u2019s levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another data provider, OpenNEM, puts the share of wind over the last three days at just 4.1 per cent, and five per cent for the past seven days, compared to more than 13 per cent for the past year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/another-wind-drought-pulls-combined-renewables-output-below-last-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s see, if wind power drops to below 5% normal for 3 days and counting, does this mean we\u2019d need at least 72 hours of battery backup, and counting? Or is the green solution to build 2000% overcapacity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Large scale wind droughts are not exactly rare. A similar event occurred in 2022;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blocking high pressure system which covered Australia on 16th June 2022. Very little wind that day. Source Bureau of Meteorology \/\u00a0JoNova<\/a>, Fair Use, Low Resolution Image to Identify the Subject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Longer outages over vast areas can also occur, such as the 2017 season long wind drought which afflicted South Australia.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously we could always keep all the coal and gas infrastructure on rolling standby, ready to jump in every other year when the wind completely fails over the entire continent, but how much would it cost to keep an entire second electricity generation system operational, just in case the renewable system fails?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually we don\u2019t have to ask that question \u2013 consumers are already learning the hard way what the renewable circus costs, through skyrocketing household energy bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe we\u2019ll all just have to get used to multi-day power blackouts, like South Africa is currently experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Actually we don\u2019t have to ask that question \u2013 consumers are already learning the hard way what the renewable circus costs, through\u00a0skyrocketing household energy bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":330515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818216,691819461,691828857,691818852],"class_list":{"0":"post-330511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-energy-bills","10":"tag-green-solution","11":"tag-wind-power","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-634.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1nYP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":253451,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253451","url_meta":{"origin":330511,"position":0},"title":"Forget About Intermittent Wind & Solar If You Want Power As And When You Need It","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"As immutable laws, solar output collapses when the sun sets and wind power output collapses when calm weather sets in (and when\u00a0wind speeds hit gale force and turbines automatically shut down). 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