During yesterday evening’s I posted this snapshot from NEM-Watch v10 on Twitter, highlighting how Scheduled Demand in Victoria was up above 9,000MW – and was likely to remain up there whilst temperatures remained high:
As noted in that chart, the hourly average Apparent Temperature at Melbourne airport remained above 30 degrees until after 21:00 NEM time (22:00 Melbourne time), which suggests some pretty uncomfortable attempts to get to sleep early for those who had to do so (and did not have air-conditioning, or were affected by the distribution-level network outages).
Paul was one of the founders of Global-Roam in February 2000. He is currently the CEO of the company and the principal author of WattClarity. Writing for WattClarity has become a natural extension of his work in understanding the electricity market, enabling him to lead the team in developing better software for clients.
Before co-founding the company, Paul worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the early 1990s. He also gained international experience in Japan, the United States, Canada, the UK, and Argentina as part of his ES Cornwall Memorial Scholarship.
One of our guest authors returns to provide some insights on what weather predictions might mean for extreme temperatures and hence peak demands in the mainland regions.
Today I managed to get about half-way (only!) through some analysis I wanted to do to ‘scratch that itch’ about what happened in the NSW Region on Thursday 23rd January – with LOR2 conditions necessitating RERT (Reserve Trader) in the NSW Region.
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