ON Monday, all the wind farms in Southern Australia, all the hundreds of turbines scattered across South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania, altogether produced exactly zero — nothing, nada, zip, zilch — power for two hours smack in the middle of the day.
Indeed, right through most of the working day — from 11am in the morning until after 8pm that night — the total output of all the wind farms was effectively zero for that entire period.
All those turbines (sic) have an aggregate capacity (sic) of nearly 3000MW — that’s theoretically equal to two large coal-fired power stations.
But over those nine hours they pumped out at most just 120MW, barely 4 per cent of their capacity (sic), and for most of the time much less even than that.
That included those two hours, from 3pm to 5pm, of absolutely no power. So, if we had embraced the Green fantasy of total so-called “renewable energy”, the lights — and everything else from hospital power to factories — would just have had to go off. Bad luck if you are in an operating theatre.
I am indebted to Andrew Miskelly and his excellent windfarmperformance.infowebsite, which tracks their output at five minute intervals over the 24 hours every day, with data from AEMO, the Australian Energy Market Operator.
Once again, I’m reminding you of the basic reality of so-called wind power (sic) that all the assorted Green fetishists and fantasists like Tristan Edis of our Business Spectator don’t want to admit or even recognise. When the wind don’t blow, the power don’t flow.
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