New South Wales has said “auf wiedersehen” to the recent “dunkelflaute” and set a new record for wind energy generation. Icy winds propelled the state’s wind power contribution to nearly 3GW just after midnight on Monday. Geoff Eldridge from Global Roam reported that the maximum instantaneous wind power contribution in NSW peaked at 2,293.5 MW at 12:15 am on Tuesday. This surpassed the previous record of 2,270.8 MW, set half an hour earlier at 11:45 pm on Monday night.
The new wind record, driven by the Antarctic blast and a low-pressure system that has chilled eastern Australia over the past two days, exceeds the previous record of 2,179.0 MW, set on the morning of April 5, 2024. Eldridge also noted that a new record for the maximum rolling one-day average wind power was set in NSW at 1,914.3 MW at 7:50 am on Tuesday, surpassing the previous record of 1,863.4 MW by 50.9 MW, also recorded on April 5.
Meanwhile, the same polar cold snap that drove the NSW wind records and potential snowfall in Queensland has contributed to a new record for winter operational demand on the National Electricity Market, reaching 33,381 MW at 6:30 pm. Eldridge, using data from NEMLog, indicated this surpasses the previous high of 32,387 MW recorded on June 7, 2022, and is the sixth highest daily maximum recorded, with the overall record being 35,440 MW on January 31, 2020.
In Victoria, the freezing conditions broke a 17-year winter record for maximum electricity demand, hitting a new high of 8,612 MW at 6:00 pm on Monday night. According to a tweet from the Australian Energy Market Operator, the previous record of 8,351 MW was set on July 17, 2007.
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