Records Still Coming - 8.6%

At 4:20 AM on the 16th of October, we hit a new record in the NEM!

At that time 8.6% of all electricity being consumed came from Wind generation. That's more than 1.5 GW of power from the Wind, about equivalent to 300,000 homes using electricity on a hot afternoon (A/C on) without any carbon emissions.

Realistically, at 4:20 in the morning, it is more like 750,000 homes using power (about 2kW - off-peak storage hot water heating) with no carbon emissions. The families in those homes had some of the cleanest showers in the country on the morning of the 16th!