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Originally Posted by jamesqf

You might be surprised at how much of that hydro power actually comes from wind - with the dams serving to balance load. 5100 MW, per this: https://www.bpa.gov/Projects/Initiat...s/default.aspx

North West USA still has lots of hydro
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They almost showed me what I have been searching for: a year total or average % of nameplate output for a wind farm. They show 7day rolling samples in 5 minute slices. It had one good day making from 50-80% of name plate And an hour at 60% the next day. And 5 days between 0 and 15%..
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A quick estimate of area under the graph gives me 22% of nameplate for the week for the wind farms.
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They have a ton of hydro which actually make the wind farms, intermittent as they are, still pretty useful.