A short article fro Monday evening with a snapshot from NEMwatch at 17:30 with the spot price up around the Market Price Cap in NSW, VIC and SA this evening:
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Last Tuesday 23rd April 2024 I spoke with an audience organised by BofA Securities with respect to ‘Risk, Uncertainty and Volatility in the energy transition’. Here’s one illustration of why the spread of spot prices in the NEM has been increasing in recent years.
Guest author, Carl Daley from EnergyByte, provides this summary of summer 2024 – covering price volatility, consolidation of the twin peaks dynamic, and BESS performance.
It was volatile this morning well past that’s become ‘normal’ and the volatility has returned (as I expected it would) this evening. Here’s the snapshot of the 17:20 dispatch interval from one of our NEMwatch v10 dashboards: As highlighted: 1) …
1 Commenton "Market volatility on Monday 27th June 2022"
The NEM is certainly creating some volatility alright- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSkFPA81Uws
That’s not mincing words and calls for a response from the CSIRO and AEMO.
The NEM is certainly creating some volatility alright-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSkFPA81Uws
That’s not mincing words and calls for a response from the CSIRO and AEMO.