Another record....

Last night it happened again.....

Although not in a huge way over Saturday's record, at 4:05 this morning, wind generation was providing the NEM with 8.1% of the electricity being used!

Again, we suspect it is because of the mild temperatures and some nicely placed wind, but it is most definitely worth acknowledging.

And just because we can (and you will soon be able to as well), we can tell you that when the record was hit 11.6% of the total electricity being delivered into the NEM was renewable. (That's pretty good). What's better is at lunch time today 13.3% of the wholesale electricity being pumped into the NEM was renewable (Hydro + Wind). And it has been above 10% since lunch time yesterday.

That's an average of 3 GW of capacity being provided by renewable generation. I'll admit I am a nerd for this stuff, but that is pretty exciting. We'll be releasing an updated Mistervint soon that will let you do this kind of analysis soon. I promise to make a noise on the blog when we do.

It looks like we're in for some strong renewable generation over the next 24 hours, so if you have some electricity heavy work that needs doing (an entire weeks worth of washing for example), now is a great time to be doing it!