21 April 2021
A newly formed offshore wind company – backed by at least one deep pocketed international industrial giant – has revealed ambitious plans to develop more than 9GW of offshore and floating wind farms in Australia, and another 3GW in New Zealand.
Oceanex Energy was set up last year by Andy Evans and Peter Sgardelis, two of the founders of Star of the South, which is advancing the massive 2GW project off the coast of Gippsland in Victoria that is likely to be the country’s first offshore wind farm.
OceanEx says plans some 7.5GW of floating wind projects at various locations off the coast of New South Wales, strategically located for the impending exit of the states fleet of coal generators, as well as another 2GW of offshore wind projects in Western Australia. It says it is backed by Green Tower, itself backed by Japan industrial group Daiwa.
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14 April 2021
Australia’s main grid notched a new milestone on Tuesday night, with record wind output of 5,430MW at 1155pm.
The new milestone was alerted to us by Paul McCardle of Global Roam, the provider of our popular NEMWatch widget. At the time, wind energy provided 26.1 per cent of the National Electricity Market’s total generation.
The Australian Energy Market Operator confirmed the new milestone. It appears to have beaten the previous record of 5,198 MW, registered at 7pm on August 22 last year, according to AEMO’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics report.
The biggest contribution came from Victoria, with 2384MW, the equivalent of 50 per cent of that state’s demand at the time, following by South Australia with 1273MW, or 84 per cent of that state’s demand at the time.