A brief look, during the day, of the effect that the Queensland heat wave is having on electricity demand within the state - and further across the NEM....
A collection of articles about events that occur, and observations that are made, about summer 2012-13 in the Australian National Electricity Market.
Some quick observations about the price spikes observed yesterday on the back of high temperature-driven demand in Victoria.
A number of recently announced closures of (and cut-backs in) a variety of coal-fired power station units across the NEM (including Northern, Yallourn, Munmorah and Tarong) - claimed...
Placing some context around reports of a record share of electricity demand in South Australia yesterday being met by wind production.
A look at the trend towards deeper liquidity of trading of electricity derivatives in Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM).
Some observations about the longer-term trend of electricity production, across the NEM, aggregated across all states by fuel type. This reveals some of the trends that have been...
A snapshot of an instance of the Queensland regional constraint, which has returned after an absence over the autumn months.
A brief look at the significant increase in output from hydro plant coincident with (and slightly preceding) the introduction of the Carbon Tax
A quick look at the extent to which wind supplies (across all wind turbines in the NEM) are diverse enough for supplies to have a degree of dependability.
Following some questions yesterday (from clients and others) we take a quick look at how Yallourn Power Station is progressing in coming back from outage caused by inundation...
The range of questions we've been asked over the course of the past 2 weeks (since the introduction of the Carbon Tax) seem to resolve to these 3...
Now that we’re through the first week of Australia’s new Carbon Tax, we thought it would be of interest to have a look at whether there has been...
Some quick notes today, on day #2 of the Carbon Tax, prompted by some prices that jumped all around the place (not so much due to carbon, though).
It's the first day under the new Carbon Tax regime, so worthwhile to have a quick look at early indications of how spot prices have changed in the...
An assortment of articles covering events happening during Winter 2012
Some brief analysis of the floods at Yallourn Power Station.
Demand was lacklustre but we've still given an impressive BBQ away to our competition winner for this summer....
Some summary points about how NEM-Wide demand across the NEM over summer 2011-12 was surprisingly low, with a very low peak achieved.
An article recently in one of the main papers about increased flows down the Snowy River prompted the question, internally, about how much the La Nina pattern of...