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 Lee first started at Global-Roam in June 2013. He has departed (and returned) for a couple of stints overseas in that time, but rejoined our team permanently in late 2019.
More recently, Dan's focus has been on growing his understanding of the market and developing his analytical capabilities. He is currently enrolled in the Master of Sustainable Energy program at the University of Queensland.
There was a temperature-driven spike in demand in NSW on Tuesday 21st November 2006.
These sweltering temperatures combined with bushfires to cause localised blackouts in the Sydney city area, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald in the article “Power jitters as heat bites”.
In a week which is traditionally very subdued in the market, the NEM sweltered in temperatures in excess of 40 degrees and an exceptional NEM-wide demand (about 30,000MW) was recorded.
What made this demand peak more remarkable was that this occurred on a day when, traditionally, a large amount of commercial and industrial load would have been offline for the Christmas & New Year holiday.
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