As forecast on Friday, we’re seeing moderately high demand in SA and VIC on Saturday evening 9th March 2024.
Here’s a snapshot from NEMwatch at the 18:25 dispatch interval showing ‘Market Demand’ in both regions out of ‘the green zone’ – with SA at 2,726MW and VIC at 8,303MW:
There’s still a bit of wind around this evening in SA (and also in VIC), which is one reason that prices, whilst elevated somewhat, are not sky-high.
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Here’s where to find AEMO’s preliminary report on the loss of SCADA on 22nd April 2023 in Victoria that led to that region being suspended for more than 24 hours.
Here’s an updated view of AEMO’s forecasts for ‘Market Demand’ across the NEM (and Victoria) for Mon 3rd Feb and Tue 4th Feb 2025 – from the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view at the 12:55 dispatch (NEM time) on Sun 2nd Feb 2025.
Within the same 24 hour period as California again feels the stresses of its own extremes, we see that Victoria experiences the other side of this energy transition challenge, with a new record low for Scheduled Demand set for *any* time of the day…. in the middle of the afternoon!
After publishing three Case Studies on Saturday, this 4th Case Study in a long series is much more complex – with 8 different Semi-Scheduled Wind Farm units across VIC and SA exhibiting significant deviations from Target. This Case study looks at April 2016, which is also 3 years after the first 3 case studies.
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