Whilst we wait to see if the minimum point for ‘Market Demand’ in South Australia will drop lower still than the fresh record set yesterday, Saturday 19th Oct 2024, worth a quick look at this snapshot from NEMwatch at the 11:45 dispatch interval … which is showing NEM-wide ‘Market Demand’ down at 10,357MW:
Whilst this might go lower still today, even at this point we should recognise that it’s eclipsed the prior ‘lowest ever*’ point back on 1st October 2023 (10,500MW target for 11:35 dispatch interval).
Whilst our attention is mainly focused on the South Australia, worth noting the deep-blue colour of the NSW region, signifying that that region is also getting down quite near to its current ‘lowest ever*’ point.
Note for the pedantic (*)
Yep, we mean in NEM time … pretty sure the Kangaroos (and Dinosaurs before them) had not much demand for electricity etc…
PS1 first time ‘Market Demand’ below 10,000MW
Early afternoon and the demand has started to climb – so it might be that the lowest-ever* point might be at 12:35 (down at 9,975MW). Note that the ‘below 10,000MW record is was announced with respect to the 12:25 dispatch interval (which was 9,994MW) earlier today:
1) here on LinkedIn and
2) here on Twitter.
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