The once-in-seven-years wind drought that South Australia experienced in the last week of June has not stopped the renewables-rich state from setting a new record for wind generation – in this case the highest amount ever for the month of June.
Rystad Energy’s monthly update on the performance of renewable energy generation assets around Australia reports that a total of 730 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity was generated from wind in South Australia in June, the highest for that month on record for the state.
The new record is not entirely surprising – as Renew Economy has reported, South Australia swung from three days of more than 100 per cent renewables before hitting a period of low wind that has been described as the state’s worst wind drought in seven years.
Rather, the record winds for the rest of the month once again underscore the need for more and longer-duration storage in the state as it shoots for 100 per cent net renewables by 2027.
Elsewhere, Queensland and New South Wales also set June monthly wind generation records set, at 636 GWh and 635 GWh, respectively, according to Rystad senior analyst David Dixon.
