Afternoon “Scheduled Demand” in Victoria on Christmas Day drops as low as overnight demand

It’s worth a quick post to note that yesterday (Christmas Day) saw the moderate temperatures in Victoria and the Pac-Man effect of small-scale PV output (up to 700MW yesterday) saw the “Scheduled Demand” for the Victorian region drop as low during afternoon as it did at 04:00 on 25th December and 26th December.  Here’s a snapshot from NEM-Watch v10  this morning:

2017-12-26-at-07-50-NEMwatch-VICdemand

Lest some readers overlook other factors weighing into the low demand across the day, I’ve included this shorter-term trend from NEMreview v7 to highlight the quite low apparent temperatures Victoria saw on Christmas Day – meaning low air-conditioning load, which would have combined with the lower commercial load and the small-scale solar during the afternoon to deliver lower demand levels:

2017-12-26-NEMreview7-VictorianDemand

In years gone by, it used to be fairly typical that “the night before Christmas” , or the night after, would see lowest point of demand for the year – however in this second trend from NEMreview v7 to below we see that the past coupe of years have seen demand levels lower at other points of time:

2017-12-26-NEMreview7-DailyExtremesVICDemand


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Paul McArdle
One of three founders of Global-Roam back in 2000, Paul has been CEO of the company since that time. As an author on WattClarity, Paul's focus has been to help make the electricity market more understandable.

1 Comment on "Afternoon “Scheduled Demand” in Victoria on Christmas Day drops as low as overnight demand"

  1. So apparent demand was only less than 45% what it was on the afternoon of 19 Dec! 8500 vs 3500 or so. Such variability.

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