“Billions of dollars of investment in wind farms over several years have been unable to prevent a “drought” in wind power generation this quarter that has surprised the market and contributed to a squeeze on east-coast gas supplies inflating wholesale prices.
Electricity generation from wind farms in the National Electricity Market since April 1 is roughly flat compared with the same quarter in 2021, despite about 2500 megawatts of wind capacity having been added since then, according to an analysis by electricity market watcher Global-ROAM.
Energy policy advisers have previously warned about the risk of a “renewables drought” in winter months, a situation described by the German word dunkelflaute. Meaning “dark doldrums”, it refers to a prolonged period when both solar and wind power generation are subdued.”
Well, you can’t say we didn’t warn them.
Any rational thinking person knows that if you increase inputs you should increase outputs.
Of course climate alarmists aren’t rational, nor are they responsible, given these bird choppers are built with taxpayers money.
Quote from:
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/drought-hits-wind-power-despite-investment-billions-20240623-p5jo0e
Senate on 2/07/2024
STATEMENTS BY SENATORS – Renewable Energy, Great Barrier Reef
Senator RENNICK (Queensland) (13:37): Billions of dollars going into wind farms over several years has been unable to prevent a drought in wind power generation this quarter that has surprised the market. Electricity generation from wind farms in the national electricity market since 1 April has been roughly flat compared to the same quarter from 2021. Despite billions of dollars in investment in wind farms, whereby the capacity in wind has increased by 50 per cent over the last four years, we have only seen a very small rise of 15 per cent in actual output. How can anyone predict the generation capacity of a wind farm when it is completely unreliable? You should be able to spend an extra dollar and get a fixed amount of increase of output for that extra dollar spent. This is the problem with unreliables: you cannot guarantee a return on your investment. We’re finally starting to see the chickens come home to roost.
