AEMO’s demand forecasts show chance of a bigger demand day declining – for Monday 3rd February 2025
An update (at 09:00 NEM time) on AEMO's more recent forecasts for peak demand levels for this evening Monday 3rd February 2025.
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About the Industrial Action at Gladstone Power Station (potentially) taking all units offline … and LOR forecast for QLD, VIC and SA
Yesterday we posted ‘All 6 coal units at Gladstone coincidentally out on unplanned outage this coming week?’. Two readers noted in comments about Industrial Action for the station...
All 6 coal units at Gladstone coincidentally out on unplanned outage this coming week?
Worth also adding in a short note with this snapshot from ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view at the 18:00 on Sunday 2nd February 2025 with all 6 units...
‘Market Demand’ in Victoria reaches 9,433MW (thus far) on Sunday 2nd February 2025
Worth a short note with this NEMwatch snapshot highlighting that the Victorian ‘Market Demand’ has reached 9,433MW this afternoon at the 17:35 dispatch interval already on Sunday 2nd...
Monday 3rd February could be a big day, in terms of ‘Market Demand’ across the NEM (and in Victoria)
Here's an updated view of AEMO's forecasts for 'Market Demand' across the NEM (and Victoria) for Mon 3rd Feb and Tue 4th Feb 2025 - from the ‘Forecast...
A trend of daily peak Victoria ‘Market Demand’– from 1st January 2008 to 1st February 2025
With respect to forecasts for peak Victorian ‘Market Demand’ in summer 2024-25 (and particularly with expectations of Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th February) we fielded a few questions...
Late afternoon volatility in South Australia on Saturday 1st February 2025
A quick note, recording some late afternoon volatility in South Australia.
A brief reminder about the complexity of measuring ‘Demand’ …
There’s essentially three measures of demand that are commonly talked about, and they are not really interchangeable.
A trend of daily peak NEM-wide ‘Market Demand’– from 1st January 2008 to 31st January 2025
With respect to forecasts for peak NEM-wide ‘Market Demand’ in summer 2024-25 (and particularly following Friday’s article) we fielded a few questions about how extreme that might be....
(Mysterious and) Large drop in NSW ‘Market Demand’ late afternoon Friday 31st January 2025, prompting questions … part 1
Coincident with the walk home this afternoon/evening, the ‘Notifications’ widget in one of our display copies of ez2view alerted us to a large drop of ‘Market Demand’ in...
Forecasts ‘hotting up’, for NEMwide demand on Monday 3rd February 2025
Following our earlier article from ~24 hours earlier, at look at ez2view shows that it’s been 'hotting up' for demand forecasts for Monday 3rd February 2025.
Shortly after the QED, the AER also publishes is Quarterly Review of 2024 Q4
Also on Thursday 30th January 2024 the AER released its Wholesale Markets Quarterly for 2024 Q4 (within hours of the AEMO's release of the QED for 2024 Q4).
AEMO’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) for 2024 Q4
On Thursday 30th January 2025, the AEMO published its Quarterly Energy Dynamics for 2024 Q4. Here's some of the coverage of that which we have seen ....
Interconnector intricacies: double and triple auto-clamping of pesky negative residues
Dan looks at some recent and peculiar auto-clamping behaviour of interconnectors, and walks through the market arrangements causing these occurrences.
Higher NEMwide demand forecasts for Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th February 2025
A quick look (at Thursday morning 30th Jan 2025) out the coming week in AEMO's ST PASA forecasts.
~13 months later, a GSD2024-inspired review of operations at Cohuna Solar Farm through 2024
We're reviewing a draft of the GSD2024 (release coming soon), and a 9-month outage at Cohuna Solar Farm in 2024 jumped out at us and prompted questions ...
PEC Stage 1 in operation – be careful what you wish for
Guest author Allan O'Neil looks at how operation of Project EnergyConnect Stage 1 may affect market outcomes, with some early indications that impacts won't be as straightforward as...
NSW ‘market demand’ climbing (Tuesday afternoon 28th January 2025) but not to extremes
An updated view (at 13:55) of the NSW region on a hot summer's afternoon on Tue 28th Jan 2025.
With heat building, is NSW the one to watch today? (Tuesday 28th January 2025)
A short article looking ahead to the afternoon/evening for NSW on Tuesday 28th January 2025.
QLD ‘Market Demand’ reached 10,897MW on Friday 24th January 2025 (3rd highest day ever)
We’ve checked with NEMwatch in this snapshot for the 18:35 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Friday 24th January 2025 and we see that the ‘Market Demand’ reached 10,897MW...