1) Both VIC and SA are out of the ‘green zone’ signfying relatively high ‘Market Demand’ in relation to historical records … though still below the red-line ‘all time maximums’.
2) Prices in this dispatch interval have just risen above $1,000/MWh for the first time, after being in the range $300/MWh to $1000/MWh for a few dispatch intervals previously
3) The sun is setting, and so is solar yield – and this unfortunately coincides with a lull in wind production (which we’d seen in these forecasts on Friday).
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.
In this article we look again at Tuesday 13th February 2024 (Victoria’s ‘Major Power System Event’) and sum up the impact of the event on net exports from Victoria over a 14-hour period, but particularly around ~13:08 when the towers were downed.
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)…
An initial review of some (wholesale) supply-side factors contributing to the extreme price volatility (and Reserve Trader etc) that occurred in the first week of February 2022 in the QLD region of the NEM.
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