… and whilst we are talking about high points for ‘Market Demand’, here’s a snapshot from NEMwatch at 17:35 with the NEMwide demand level at 32,840MW (by that measure):
At this point, that’s a little below the highest point thus far today (32,921MW at 17:05) … but again let’s see what happens as rooftop PV sets for the evening… (almost gone in Brisbane now).
Clearly we can see the three large regions are each well out of their ‘green zone’ in terms of the relative range of demand.
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A review of the high demand periods over summer 2017/18 highlights the important contribution renewable generation is making to meeting peak demand and addressing the reliability of the power system.
Given that the holidays are now over (for most of us) and we’re returning back to “normal” life, we thought it would be a good time to provide a brief overview of what’s happened in terms of NEM-Wide demand, to date.
This will be interesting when subsidies for rooftop solar are removed the amount of systems will reduce over time as they start to fail creating more demand for the house hold that didn’t consume and for not being able to supply the network what it needs
The market price in SA and Vic are often very interesting. Yesterday in SA was once again interesting.
This will be interesting when subsidies for rooftop solar are removed the amount of systems will reduce over time as they start to fail creating more demand for the house hold that didn’t consume and for not being able to supply the network what it needs