New ‘lowest ever*’ point of NSW ‘Market Demand’, on Sunday 20th October 2024

Well, that did not take long … after using a snapshot from NEMwatch at 11:45 to comment in this article about the…

‘the deep-blue colour of the NSW region, signifying that that region is also getting down quite near to its current ‘lowest ever*’ point’

… the next dispatch interval we see the SMS alerts start to signify a new ‘lowest ever*’ point:

Here’s a snapshot from NEMwatch at 11:50 to record this new ‘lowest ever*’ point in NSW, down at 3,237MW:

Note that:

1)  At 3,237MW at 11:50 in NSW:

(a)  that is a shade under the 3,248MW prior lowest point on 6th October 2024;

(b)  also worth noting that this was a drop of 219MW over 5 minutes (noting the 3,456MW at 11:45).

2)  Also note that the NEM-wide demand at 11:50 is down to 10,033MW … so similarly lower than 5-minutes beforehand.

… but note this update a little later.

So it’s already a record-breaking day…

PS1 lowest point  at 12:45

Demand has started to climb now, later into the afternoon  so it looks like the new ‘lowest ever*’ point in NSW will be at 12:45 (down at 3,150MW) … for ‘Market Demand’.