Worth a short follow-on article (given the extreme level of demand experienced in QLD today … on a very hot, but ordinarily very ‘sleepy’ period between Xmas and the New Year) to take a quick look at tomorrow….
1) See how the levels of ‘Market Demand’ seen today (for the half hour periods ending dispatch intervals HH:00 and HH:30) cranked well past AEMO’s earlier forecasts; at the same time as
2) AEMO’s current forecasts for tomorrow are sitting substantially higher than their earlier forecasts for the afternoon/evening just passing.
Paul was one of the founders of Global-Roam in February 2000. He is currently the CEO of the company and the principal author of WattClarity. Writing for WattClarity has become a natural extension of his work in understanding the electricity market, enabling him to lead the team in developing better software for clients.
Before co-founding the company, Paul worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the early 1990s. He also gained international experience in Japan, the United States, Canada, the UK, and Argentina as part of his ES Cornwall Memorial Scholarship.
We noted yesterday, in the midst of the excitement, that the previous NEM-wide demand record had been beaten, by virtue of the heatwave assaulting VIC and SA over the day. We spoke too soon, however, as demand continued to climb through the afternoon.
One of 12 articles on the months past in the NEM. For January we revisit events such as the fires at Moomba in 2004 (which curtailed gas supplies from central Australia); and the blackout on 16th January 2007 which drove the price to VOLL in Victoria.
The day is not over yet, but we thought you would be interested in the attached snapshot highlighting the first of the occasions on the day when prices jumped to VOLL in SA and VIC as a result of searing temperatures stopping the tennis, and melting VIC and SA into new demand records for each region.
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