Worth including this snapshot from ez2view of the 13:05 dispatch interval highlighting electricity spot prices elevated across all regions of the NEM for a number of reasons (including coal (and other) unit outages, and the high spot gas prices shown):
The 13:05 dispatch interval was randomly chosen today – but looks similar to a large number of other dispatch interval that’s been occurring in recent weeks (it will be interesting to look at the details when I run the update on this annual analysis of Q2 prices at the end of this Q2 2022).
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