Some articles, as we put them together, focused on events of summer 2010-11
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Paul McArdle
Sunday, February 12 2017
[1st post] AEMO forecasts near-record electricity demand in Queensland – late on a Sunday evening!
Looking forward to this evening, and what looks set to be a near all-time record for QLD demand (a remarkable outcome for a Sunday)
Paul McArdle
Wednesday, December 13 2017
“Scheduled Demand” in Victoria stopped short of 8,500MW today (lower than forecast) but the demand peak forecast for NSW tomorrow has grown to almost 13,000MW
Demand in Victoria peaked lower than forecast today, but demand forecasts for NSW tomorrow are continuing to climb.
Paul McArdle
Wednesday, December 31 2008
A hot day in QLD today!
High temperatures in Queensland drive demand up on New Year’s Eve.
Paul McArdle
Friday, December 8 2006
7th December 2005 – high demand in Queensland and NSW
For several days in early December, temperatures reaching 40 degrees in Queensland and New South Wales cause airconditioning load (and hence total demand) to soar in both regions.
The high demands resulted in very high prices being experienced in both QLD and NSW (and also the SNOWY region). Both VIC and SA were insulated from the high prices because (at least in part) of the fact that transfers over the SNOVIC interconnector were constrained to minimise negative inter-regional surplus
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