Another quick article for Sunday 17th August 2025 – this one prompted by an SMS alert notifying me that we’d struck a new ‘lowest ever*’ point for ‘Market Demand’ in Queensland:
As noted there;
1) The low point was at 2,962 MW at the 12:35 dispatch interval (NEM time)
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.
Third article already on Friday morning 27th Sept 2024, looking forwards to a forecast ‘Minimum System Load’ event in Victoria in parallel with the AFL Grand Final tomorrow (Sat 28th Sept 2024).
Noteworthy that in the sleepy period between Christmas and New Year the QLD region can exceed 9,500MW (fast approaching an all-time maximum) on the first day of a two-day state wide heatwave.
Sunday 1st October 2023 and the ‘minimum demand’ point for the QLD region (measured by ‘Market Demand’) has fallen lower still on a sunny spring long weekend.
1 Commenton "New ‘lowest ever’ point for ‘Market Demand’ in Queensland, on Sunday 17th August 2025"
Not unexpected. A very mild day, limited cloud cover with a bit of a warm breeze about.
Meanwhile demand is through the roof tonight as the chill sets in and solar/wind has died off.