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.
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A look-back at 11 years of NEM history to reveal the nature and measure of benefits large industrial energy users can gain from curtailability in the NEM
We noted yesterday, in the midst of the excitement, that the previous NEM-wide demand record had been beaten, by virtue of the heatwave assaulting VIC and SA over the day. We spoke too soon, however, as demand continued to climb through the afternoon.
A record of a hot day that drove NEM-Wide demand to the highest level it has achieved (thus far) this summer. See this in context of historical maximum levels.
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