As demand in the region has begun to rise sharply in Queensland (and is still forecast to smash the all-time record), output at the state’s four utility-scale wind farms has been muted. At the time of writing (3:45PM this afternoon) the four wind farms are generating a grand total of 50MW. The wind is particularly silent in the north of the state with the 180MW Mount Emerald Wind Farm and the 157MW Kaban Wind Farm currently combining to generate just a single megawatt.
The total max capacity (as published by AEMO) of the four wind farms is 813MW. The chart below has been created using the ez2view trend editor and shows the trended hourly aggregate wind output vs max capacity.
Dan is a Market Analyst, who joined Global-Roam in June 2013.
After a couple of brief stints overseas, he returned to the team permanently in late 2019. Alongside his work at Global-Roam, he has undertaken short-term contract roles as an analyst and researcher in various areas of the energy sector. Dan graduated from the Master of Sustainable Energy program at the University of Queensland in 2024.
Based on forecasts NEMMCO had been providing through their PASA process, we expected that it might prove that this week would deliver huge demand levels, and high prices.
Not to disappoint, the market did deliver high levels of demand in all regions:
(a) Peak demand levels were reduced somewhat from the huge levels the previous week in Victoria and South Australia;
(b) Demand levels were also still building to the record level to be experienced the following week in NSW;
(c) Peak demand levels in Queensland were fairly steady (and high) for most weeks of summer.
(d) In combination, a new NEM-wide peak demand target of 30,994MW was set on Monday 23rd January.
High Contingency FCAS prices (Raise 6 second) in response to what’s happened at Callide Power Station drove the Cumulative Price to (6 times) the Cumulative Price Threshold. Administered Pricing began Saturday evening for QLD.
An animated walk through 19 hours of Saturday 14th January 2017 in the Queensland region of the National Electricity Market – a day we dubbed “sizzling Saturday” not least because of extreme price volatility
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