Large instantaneous jump in ‘Market Demand’ in NSW on Tuesday afternoon 18th February 2025
A relatively large jump in ‘Market Demand’ in the NSW region from 16:05 to 16:10 on Tuesday 18th February 2025 caught our attention.
Read MoreA relatively large jump in ‘Market Demand’ in the NSW region from 16:05 to 16:10 on Tuesday 18th February 2025 caught our attention.
Read MoreAfter reviewing the latest version of our Generator Statistical Digest (GSD), David Leitch shares his top insights about VRE curtailment across the NEM in 2024.
With the news that Codrington Wind Farm (one of the first in the NEM) is to be closed, we take a quick look at 24 years of history.
Given the situation that unfolded on Sunday 16th February 2025, we take a look at curtailment of Large Solar production (not quite a record).
Seeking indications of possible performance at solar sites announced in the CIS tender of 2024, we inspect statistics of nearby solar farms using the GSD2024.
Second article pertaining to the remarkably low level of ‘Market Demand’ in NSW on Sunday 16th February 2025.
The bottom has dropped out of the ‘record minimum demand’ point for NSW on Sunday 16th February 2025.
A quick note with snapshot taken at ~15:11 on Thursday 13th February 2025 looking back at the past 6 hours of NEM Mainland Frequency.
If I had time, we’d explore three separate questions we have about what happened in South Australia on Wednesday 12th February 2025. In this article we take a first pass at one of those questions … what was the state of play in terms of contributions to meeting the very high level of demand?
A follow-on article focused on the 19:00 dispatch interval on Wednesday 12th February 2025 in South Australia (a very tight period for supply-demand balance).
Tuesday 12th February 2025 is seeing very high levels of ‘Market Demand’ into the evening in South Australia.
Following an earlier article (on Wednesday morning 12th February 2024) we note the end of oscillations related to the newly composed ‘N-BU_330_TX_ONE’ constraint set for an outage related to Project Energy Connect.
With respect to forecasts for peak South Australian ‘Market Demand’ in summer 2024-25 (and particularly with expectations of high demand on Wed 12th Feb 2025) we’ve provided this article as some context.
Wednesday morning 12th February 2024 sees rapid and large oscillations in prices across all regions – which results from (and/or leads to) oscillations in output of many units. One of the contributing factors is suspected to be the newly composed ‘N-BU_330_TX_ONE’ constraint set for an outage related to Project Energy Connect.
With warnings that tomorrow could see high (higher!) demand in South Australia, we take a quick look at high demand experienced on Tuesday 11th February 2025.
DTN (a.k.a. Weatherzone) says tomorrow South Australia might see ‘hottest day in 5 years’. Well, correlated with that, AEMO forecasts show it might see highest ‘Market Demand’ in 11 years!
Allan O’Neil takes a closer look at Victorian electricity demand on Sunday, February 2nd — which stood out as an unprecedented anomaly when looking at the history of weekend demand in the region.
Using the latest GSD – GSD2024 – we take the opportunity to reflect on FCAS enablement and how enabled levels are changing between technology types.
A short record of a large (i.e. >400MW) change in ‘Market Demand’ in the NSW region for the 17:15 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Friday 7th February 2025, alerted via ez2view.
No sooner had I published this article about ‘Berrybank 1 Wind Farm recommences operations, on Friday morning 7th February 2025’ than I received an ez2view alert on the restart of neighbouring Berrybank 2 Wind Farm.