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’.
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