No Wind for Northwind

Northwind plant, located at the northern part of Luzon grid in the Philippines has a capacity factor of 16.2% from March to July 2013. And that is six months.

This means the said wind farm has an average dependable capacity of 4 MW out of total of 25.5 MW maximum capacity which is very low compared to the global wind power capacity factor of 28% and to the US wind power capacity factor of 31.8%.

Significantly, this means that  for a Luzon peak load of 6,800 MW we need about 42,000 MW of wind power capacity to supply Luzon grid on wind power alone, and that's a lot!

Capacity factor and daily output of Northwind power plant from March to July 2013.