It’s Wednesday 23rd December 2025, and this is a short note to highlight that Brisbanites have sweated through a night where the apparent temperature at Brisbane airport
reached its lowest point early Tuesday evening 22nd December 2025 (at ~27 degC at 19:00-20:00)
and climbed from that point through the night (reaching 30degC by 03:00).
Utilising this ‘Trends Engine’ chart in ez2view we highlight the trend of some summary stats through December 2025 to point out how this night stood out
Thelowest point for ‘Market Demand’ in Queensland overnight was up at 6,748MW (at 05:00 NEM time). We’ve done a quick* scan and that looks likely to be thehighest overnight minimum since the start of the NEM.
Next highest overnight minimum might have been back on Friday 24th January 2025 (at 6,655MW at 03:35 NEM time).
Looking past others in January 2025 (on the 23rd and 28th), the 5th highest overnight minimum ever was on 28th January 2024 (at 6,508MW).
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.
Hot on the heels of a new record low point for Scheduled Demand (a week ago) in VIC, today sees Scheduled Demand in SA plunge to 315MW in the 11:50 dispatch interval on Sunday 13th September 2020.
We are only in the second week of summer 2015-16, and demand in Queensland has already begun to heat up, hitting 8507MW at 3:05pm this afternoon after another hot and humid day across the sunshine state.
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