… and whilst we are talking about high points for ‘Market Demand’, here’s a snapshot from NEMwatch at 17:35 with the NEMwide demand level at 32,840MW (by that measure):
At this point, that’s a little below the highest point thus far today (32,921MW at 17:05) … but again let’s see what happens as rooftop PV sets for the evening… (almost gone in Brisbane now).
Clearly we can see the three large regions are each well out of their ‘green zone’ in terms of the relative range of demand.
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Wednesday 28th January saw demand across the NEM jump to unprecedented levels, setting a new record of 34,843MW at 16:00 NEM time. On Thursday 29th January, we saw the demand increase still further, leading to prices that stayed high for much of the day (to the point where the Cumulative Price Threshold was reached in VIC and SA and price caps were imposed), and a relatively small amount of involuntary load shedding occurring in VIC and SA.
We watched with interest today as demand crept up in all mainland regions to the point where the NEM-Wide demand rose slightly above 33,000MW for the first time ever, during a summer period.
This will be interesting when subsidies for rooftop solar are removed the amount of systems will reduce over time as they start to fail creating more demand for the house hold that didn’t consume and for not being able to supply the network what it needs
The market price in SA and Vic are often very interesting. Yesterday in SA was once again interesting.
This will be interesting when subsidies for rooftop solar are removed the amount of systems will reduce over time as they start to fail creating more demand for the house hold that didn’t consume and for not being able to supply the network what it needs