I’ve only had about 2 hours this morning to put this together, and have no more time to analyse today, but the following will be of interest to some of our WattClarity readers:
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Considering the extraordinary weather, bushfires, and a couple of large Victorian generators still not back from long term repairs, last week was probably less eventful for the NEM than might have been expected, but it certainly wasn’t incident-free. A very…
With the repeal of the carbon tax looking more likely, and July 1st only just around the corner, someone asked today if we could calculate what the spot price might be without carbon.
Wednesday 28th January saw demand across the NEM jump to unprecedented levels, setting a new record of 34,843MW at 16:00 NEM time. On Thursday 29th January, we saw the demand increase still further, leading to prices that stayed high for much of the day (to the point where the Cumulative Price Threshold was reached in VIC and SA and price caps were imposed), and a relatively small amount of involuntary load shedding occurring in VIC and SA.
Alerted to a price spike at 09:45 this morning in the QLD region, we discovered some reduction in load (spot-exposed Demand Response probably) and also a large collective trip in Solar Farm output (reasons unclear).
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PS – it’s been highlighted to me that the outage at Yallourn comes coincident with Industrial Relations action onsite, and with a fire that is under investigation at present.
PS – it’s been highlighted to me that the outage at Yallourn comes coincident with Industrial Relations action onsite, and with a fire that is under investigation at present.
Here’s some further news at the ABC, and in the Australian.
If you know more, please do add this in comments below (or let us know offline).