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Originally posted by LoadedDog: ↑

Forget the EU, there has been a wind drought in Vic and SA for a month. Most days their wind generation limped along at around 5% CF.

This is Vic's fossil generation:

A few things of note:

1. A large Loy Yang plant is off the scale at 110% nameplate. Has been there for months.

2. Most, and they would be the coal plants, because that's the way to run them, are constantly at or near nameplate in spite of being told they are unwanted so only basic maintenance is being carried out.

3. The vertical lines are gas plants cutting in and out at the WHIM of W/S.
You've clearly never noticed how big Australia is & how diverse the weather patterns are.and it's always 5 o'clock somewhere.

Not true. Most of our windmills are on the south coast, in the Roaring 40s. Being a large land mass just means high pressure systems are correspondingly big, and slow moving.

Much of Australia, including all the tropics, is unsuitable for wind.

This is a slice of the southern lats from windy.com [good resource]. Note the wind gradient from the placid tropics to the furious 50s.

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Except they have & are building wind farms in Central, North & Far North QLD!
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