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Additional info on Ontario's wind:
http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/pubs/marketReports/ORO_Report-2007-2-2.pdf
Adding in the total Name Plate Capacity of 475 Mw into my chart:
The complete daily output from wind can be found here
http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/pubs/marketReports/download/HourlyWindGen_2008...
I compiled the data from
http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/pubs/marketReports/download/HourlyWindGen_2008...
To get the number of hits per hour for each percent of name plate for all the wind output from 1-Mar-06 to 26-feb-08, 17,473 measurements.
I get this graph
This shows clearly where the ouput from windturbines spends its time as a percent of the Name Plate. 30% of the hourly hits is above the 27% capacity factor. 70% of the time the hourly output is below 27%. 50% of the time the output is at 13% of Name Plate or less. 5% of the time there is no output at all. 90% of the hits are at or below 50% Name Plate.