In the small hours of this morning the Eastern Australian electricity grid hit a new record. 8.3% of the total electricity being used in Eastern Australia came from the wind.
We're hitting a record every couple of weeks now that the winter chill is abating and we're getting the beginnings of some spring/summer breezes. I suspect that as the temperatures warm up and the load on the electricity grid from air conditioners being run all night increases, we'll see the records dry up. But I think that we've still got one or two to go before that happens.
Just for the sake of completeness, at the same time 3.9% of all electricity was being generated from Hydro and so 12.2% of all the power being used in the NEM was clean and renewable.
Encouraging stuff!
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