QLD sees new all-time record for ‘Market Demand’, from 15:45 on Monday 22nd January 2024

Merely 5 minutes after posting this update (re 10,052MW) and this particular alert has triggered:

This shows that, from the 15:45 dispatch interval we’ve started experiencing a new all-time record for ‘Market Demand’ in QLD.

Here’s a subsequent snapshot at 16:00 from NEMwatch with the ‘Market Demand’ in QLD up at 10,459MW:

Already this demand is 298MW beyond last Friday’s new (but short-lived) point for highest-ever demand in Queensland … and it’s growing fast!