In this 6th article relating to the data glitch triggered frequency excursion on Wednesday 5th August 2026, we take another look at interconnectors, and start compiling a sequence of events.
A very quick article to record the price spike (for ENERGY) in the NSW region at 14:55 earlier today (Friday 17th October 2025) ... and Contingency Lower in QLD.
There was a short-lived (but interesting) price spike for ENERGY in the NSW region on Friday evening 10th October 2025. Here's a first look.
We already noted this a few times recently, but we thought it would be worth separating out as its own article under the ‘Energy Literacy’ category, as it’s likely we’ll be referring back to it increasingly in future.
Monday evening 11th November 2024 sees volatility return in QLD initially, and soon also in NSW.
AEMO note that (from 10:00 on Wed 10th April 2024) the QNI export limit will increase to a possible 850MW ... we take a quick look at history.
An AEMO market notice from yesterday afternoon declares that an extra 50MW has been made available on the QNI interconnector.
A short article about this evening's market volatility in the QLD region on Monday 16th May 2022
Second short article, looking into what has been happening through Queensland on Thursday 11th November 2021.
A deeper look at the frequency data (our own, and also from some others) reveals a number of other interesting things about what happened on Tuesday 25th May 2021 in Queensland.
Three main factors contributed to the spot prices in Queensland dropping underwater today for a number of hours - with some factors suggesting this might be the pattern for the coming week...
Following on from Saturday's islanding event, we use our current interest in AEMO's 4-second SCADA data to prove a little more...