National and State Renewable Energy stats

[paulp]

The other catch is that they appear to consider all the data on your solar production to be their proprietary data.

My data will confuse enphase. For some reason the powerwalls prevent the enphase data properly processing so I rely on the tesla data, stored by tesla…Is that a catch as well?

 

[paulp]

Yeah, like a lifetime of people’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts

And tesla powerwall data

 

[Vostok]

The stats for March - a slightly better performance than in February. The renewable percentage is up 360 basis points from the same month last year, 630 basis points from 2 years ago and 970 basis points from 3 years ago.

Renewable energy generation for March - average for the month:

• National - 38.6%
• TAS - 99.7%
• SA - 78.1%
• WA - 39.9%
• VIC - 37.8%
• NSW - 34.6%
• QLD - 27.5%

Peak renewable generation for March - and time of occurrence:

• National - 69.6% on 09 Mar 12:15
• TAS - 100.0% on many occasions
• SA - 98.3% on 02 Mar 16:45
• WA - 75.7% on 10 Mar 15:00
• NSW - 73.2% on 30 Mar 13:00
• VIC - 69.6% on 09 Mar 12:30
• QLD - 61.6% on 30 Mar 13:45

Daytime renewable performance for March - renewable percentage when solar production is not zero:

• National - 45.2%
• TAS - 99.7%
• SA - 81.5%
• WA - 49.8%
• NSW - 45.9%
• VIC - 45.9%
• QLD - 37.9%

Nighttime renewable performance for March - renewable percentage when solar production is zero:

• National - 23.7%
• TAS - 99.8%
• SA - 71.8%
• WA - 27.2%
• VIC - 26.2%
• NSW - 16.1%
• QLD - 10.1%

Diurnal renewable hardness for March - ratio of nighttime renewable percentage to daytime:

• National - 0.52
• TAS - 1.00
• SA - 0.88
• VIC - 0.57
• WA - 0.55
• NSW - 0.35
• QLD - 0.27

Small Scale / Rooftop solar as a proportion of all generation for March - invisible to AEMO:

• National - 13.1%
• SA - 24.6%
• WA - 20.0%
• NSW - 12.4%
• VIC - 11.7%
• QLD - 11.2%
• TAS - 5.4%

Renewable mix for March - solar includes small-scale solar, hydro includes pumped hydro:

• National - Wind: 33.6%, Solar: 53.3%, Hydro: 13.2%
• NSW - Wind: 23.3%, Solar: 67.8%, Hydro: 8.9%
• QLD - Wind: 19.0%, Solar: 73.8%, Hydro: 7.2%
• SA - Wind: 56.5%, Solar: 43.5%, Hydro: 0.0%
• TAS - Wind: 20.7%, Solar: 5.5%, Hydro: 73.9%
• VIC - Wind: 45.6%, Solar: 42.1%, Hydro: 12.3%
• WA - Wind: 50.0%, Solar: 50.0%, Hydro: 0.0%

SNSWNB Index for March - sun not shining wind not blowing index: total duration in minutes spread across N separate periods:

• National - 0 minutes across 0 periods
• NSW - 0 minutes across 0 periods
• QLD - 0 minutes across 0 periods
• SA - 0 minutes across 0 periods
• TAS - 135 minutes across 3 periods
• VIC - 0 minutes across 0 periods
• WA - 0 minutes across 0 periods

 

[Aryll]

AEMO has released its latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report, covering Q1 2024.

https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2024/qed-q1-2024.pdf?la=en&hash=CDAE3D2A5BA31DD3BF03A1EA39840F34

Here are a few of the graphs that stood out to me (all of these relate only to the NEM - they don't include WA).

 

[Aryll]

 

[Vostok]

Does AEMO hypothecate as to why there was a significant increase in operational demand Q1 2024 vs Q1 2023? What’s reported here looks like a significant increase - 4.2%.

Operational Demand in the NEM has gone nowhere for 15 years. It peaked in 2008, drooped slowly from there, and only in 2023 did underlying demand come back up and finally topple this record - by a mere 0.06% or 5 hours of demand.

Australia's population has increased 22% in that same period, so per-capita demand is still significantly down from the peak.

 

[Hairyman]

Thanks for the analysis @Aryll