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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Prices have (finally!) subsided, so here’s an initial review of what I can see about what happened in South Australia on Friday evening 12th March 2021. Apologies for mistakes (it’s rushed, there will be some)…
On Thursday evening 17th October 2024, a significant weather event in South Australia has damaged the high-voltage network in SA Far North (and power supply has been impacted).
Our second review was prepared in conjunction with the release of NEM-Watch version 7 (including the new NEM-Watch portal at www.NEM-Watch.info) in March 2007.
From one extreme (perhaps lowest ever in June 2017, on like-for-like) to the other (new record production) in the space of just one month for aggregate wind in South Australia
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