As at 4:30pm this afternoon, hot and humid conditions are plaguing the sunshine state with the air temperature at Brisbane Airport currently 32° and humidity at 60%.
The image below has been taken from our Forecast Convergence widget in ez2view and shows the AEMO’s latest P5 total demand (a.k.a market demand) forecast run. We can see that the demand forecast in QLD for the 17:30 dispatch interval is currently 10,187MW.
Dan is a Market Analyst, who joined Global-Roam in June 2013.
He departed (and returned) for a couple of brief stints overseas, before rejoining 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.
Spurred by a number of concurrent requests I’ve returned to the pattern of prior analysis of Q2 prices (completed in 2016, 2017 and 2018) to look at what’s changed for Q2 2020 that’s just ended. Some stakeholders clearly taken by surprise. Analysis includes the SWIS in Western Australia
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