NSW region hit new ‘lowest ever’ point for Market Demand on Sunday 8th October 2023

Worth also a short note today to highlight that both the NSW region experienced a new ‘lowest ever’ point for Market Demand on Sunday 9th October 2023 – as captured in a series of SMS alerts received through the peak rooftop solar periods of the day:

2023-10-08-SMSalerts-LowDemand-NSWandSA

The ‘lowest ever’ point for NSW occurred as shown in the image above (i.e. 3,869MW for the 13:10 dispatch intervalNEM time’ ):

1)  which was lower than the 3,957MW previous ‘lowest ever’ set Easter Sunday 9th April 2023; and

2)  Here’s a snapshot from later Sunday afternoon via NEMwatch:

2023-10-08-at-14-40-NEMwatch-NSW

I’ve not had time to look at ‘Operational Demand’ (which is what the AEMO more commonly looks at these days).

 

… that’s all for now.


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One of three founders of Global-Roam back in 2000, Paul has been CEO of the company since that time. As an author on WattClarity, Paul's focus has been to help make the electricity market more understandable.

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