Another quick article for Sunday 17th August 2025 – this one prompted by an SMS alert notifying me that we’d struck a new ‘lowest ever*’ point for ‘Market Demand’ in Queensland:
As noted there;
1) The low point was at 2,962 MW at the 12:35 dispatch interval (NEM time)
2) Which was 13 MW lower than the preceding ‘lowest ever*’ record point (almost exactly a year ago – on Sunday 18th August 2024, noted at the time via ‘Queensland ‘Market Demand’ drops below 3,000MW (for the first time in over 20 years), on Sunday 18th August 2024’)
Here’s a look ~90 minutes later via NEMwatch at 14:05 NEM time:
… and here’s an updated longitudinal trend of monthly minimum demand stats, from the (recently upgraded) ‘Trends Engine’ widget within ez2view:
Not unexpected. A very mild day, limited cloud cover with a bit of a warm breeze about.
Meanwhile demand is through the roof tonight as the chill sets in and solar/wind has died off.