All good things come to an end – and today I am able to identify to whom we award that 6th and final consolation prize for summer 2014-15 – this portable barbeque:
Today the focus is Queensland (Competition #2), and earlier today I posted this analysis of what happened with peak Queensland demand.
Hence the main thing that remains to do is to congratulate Peter Sherman, from (QLD generator) InterGen, as he was only 9MW above the actual peak with the closest entry of many we received!
Recapping the winners
This means that our competition table stands as follows:
| Competition #1 {The Main Prize} |
Peak NEM-Wide Demand for the “extended summer” period |
Demand did not even rise above 30,000MW – which surprised us, and most of our entrants (as we discussed here).
The winner, as announced on Tuesday 7th April, was energy-sector lawyer, Connor James. |
| Competition #2 {Consolation} | Peak Queensland Demand for the same period |
Today we discussed how peak Queensland demand (8,892MW) was very close to an all-time record – a record which I would expect will be broken in the following summer period.
The winner, as announced here today was Peter Sherman of InterGen. |
| Competition #3 {Consolation} | Peak NSW Demand for the same period |
On Monday 13th April we highlighted how the NSW peak demand was 3,000MW shy of the all-time record.
The winner, as announced here on that day was Jeremy Machet, an energy-focused student. |
| Competition #4 {Consolation} | Peak Victoria Demand for the same period |
In Victoria the peak demand was almost 2,000MW below the peaks achieved in other years – as discussed here.
The winner, as announced here on Thursday 9th April was Elijah Pack from the AEMO. |
| Competition #5 {Consolation} | Peak South Australia Demand for the same period |
This past summer, the South Australian demand did not break 3,000MW – and, indeed, for only a small number of days was it above 2,000MW.
Not daunted by this challenge, the winner (as announced here on Friday 10th April) was Cameron Butler from Energy Price Solutions. |
| Competition #6 {Consolation} | Peak Tasmania Demand for the same period |
Tasmania is normally a winter peaking region (the only one, these days), so picking the winter peak demand might be thought of as somewhat “easier” than for mainland regions – though not without its own challenges. On Tuesday 14th April we posted this analysis of peak Tassie demand. The winner, as announced on that day was Reinhard Struve, from a Government Department (though in a “foreign” region!). |
| Competition #7{Consolation} | Peak Aggregate NEM-Wide Wind Production for the same period |
On Thursday 16th April we highlighted how wind output peaked up at 2,848MW.
The winner, as announced here today (Thursday 16th April) was Elijah Pack from the AEMO, who was closest to the mark. |
That wraps up our summer competitions for this year. Now I can get back to some real work!
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