We’ve already notes that (tomorrow) ‘Monday 3rd February could be a big day, in terms of ‘Market Demand’ across the NEM (and in Victoria)’.
… so it’s worth a short note with this NEMwatch snapshot at 17:50 NEM time highlighting that the Victorian ‘Market Demand’ has reached 9,433MW this afternoon at the 17:35 dispatch interval already on Sunday 2nd February 2025 :
Two other notes:
1) With reference to this ‘trend of daily peak Victoria ‘Market Demand’– from 1st January 2008 to 1st February 2025’ we can see that even this level is far from an everyday occurrence.
2) With this snapshot from the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view looking at Victorian ‘Market Demand’ we see that to the 18:10 dispatch interval, ‘actual’ levels of ‘Market Demand’ for the 5-minute periods ending each half hour were (for a couple hours) well ahead of earlier forecasts today:
… but it looks like that worm has turned now, so it may be that’s as high as it gets today.
That’s the highest Victorian 5-minute TOTALDEMAND recorded for any non-working day – more than 300 MW above the previous high on 28 Jan 2018. So it’s consistent with the underlying picture of demand growth revealed by the Q4 record Victorian demand we saw on 16 Dec 2024.
Thanks for the tip, Allan