There’s been some discussion in certain circles about what that might do to the Cumulative Price, but it was Alex Leemon here that (to my knowledge) first noted that it went negative on Thursday 29th August 2024.
Here’s a snapshot of the situation this morning in this pre-prepared query in the ‘Trends Engine’ within ez2view:
A seen in this snapshot from NEMwatch at the 09:30 dispatch interval on Friday 30th August 2024 noting that the Cumulative Price in South Australia is down at (only!) $185/MWh … so is soon to join VIC (now at –$23,860/MWh) down in negative territory:
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.
One of our guest authors, a meteorologist, lends his expertise to helping us understand one of the reasons why peak demand for summer 2014-15 was what it was.
I thought it would be worth adding a couple snapshots from the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view looking at ‘Market Demand’ as at various dispatch intervals on Thursday 26th June 2025 looking backwards ~7 days and forwards ~7 days
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