AEMO’s forecasts for higher ‘Market Demand’ in NSW on Thursday evening 25th January 2024 don’t materialise

A very short article today with a single snapshot from ez2view (the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget time-travelled back to 22:00 on Thursday 25th January 2023 (NEM time) and focused on ‘Market Demand’ for the NSW region):

1)  Because it follows on our article ‘AEMO forecasts deep LOR2 in NSW on Thursday 25th January 2024’ looking ahead, from Tuesday morning 23rd Jan 2024;

2)  And also, in part, because one of our readers asked for it in the wash-up following Thu 25th Jan 2024:

Don’t have time to delve into any detail now, other than to flag that:

1)  ‘Looking up that vertical’ shows that there was a late (significant!) drop in demand in NSW that the earlier ST PASA and P30 predispatch forecasts did not suggest;

2)  Which I presume (though have not checked) was due to a cooler change;

3)  But which we might find time to follow up about in a subsequent article …