Winding down through Beer O’clock at the end of a long week with the team and the buzzing of my phone distracts to a few successive price spikes this afternoon in the NSW Region:
Here’s a snapshot of the 16:00 dispatch interval Time-Travelled back in ez2view showing some of what happened:
Out of curiosity, I pulled up the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view and also wound back to 16:00 – and see that, in this instance, the price spike was forecast in advance via the P5 Predispatch forecast:
Given that I’ve not even finished digging through what happened in QLD on Tuesday 13th October (Part 4 of the Case Study published yesterday), I’m not going to promise to dig further into this … but you know what they said about curiosity…
One of three founders of Global-Roam back in 2000, Paul has been CEO of the company since that time.
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In part 4 of this expanding Case Study of the unexpected price spike on Tuesday 13th Oct, linked to a large & sudden drop in output across 10 solar farms, we take a quick look at what happened at most of the QLD generators through this 10:00 trading period.
Yesterday evening (Tue 9th June 2020) saw an example of ‘dunkelflaute’ across the NEM. It’s a phenomenon we will see increasingly as the transition progresses, so it’s something we should be seeking to understand, and address, with real world solutions and not rose coloured glasses.
Guest author, Allan O’Neil does a masterful job with limited time in reviewing some of the goings-on in the NEM (particularly VIC and SA) on Thursday 30th January 2020
NSW was importing energy when a LHS constrain happened…why the constrain happened, I dont know!
A question that ez2view would help you with, Bruno. If I have time, will look and explain further later…
Eraring 4 died?