NSW records highest winter demand in fifteen years, whilst high prices eventuate in SA on Tuesday evening 1st July 2025
Cold winter conditions in NSW have pushed market demand above 13GW this evening, whilst elevated prices are being seen in SA.
Articles by Dan Lee
Dan is a Market Analyst, who joined Global-Roam in June 2013.
He departed (and returned) for a couple of brief stints overseas, before rejoining the team permanently in late 2019. Alongside his work at Global-Roam, he has undertaken short-term contract roles as an analyst and researcher in various areas of the energy sector. Dan graduated from the Master of Sustainable Energy program at the University of Queensland in 2024.
VNI West given an official two year delay, with expected completion date pushed back to late 2030
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Market Price Cap increases to $20,300/MWh from today, 1st July 2025
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A closer look at LOR projections in South Australia next Monday 30th June 2025
A quick look into those LOR forecasts for South Australia next Monday, including a view of forecasts for market demand, wind and solar conditions, and generator outages.
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The AEMO has kicked off a consultation to overhaul its automated negative residue management processes ahead of Project Energy Connect forming a new transmission loop in the NEM.
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High prices and tight spare supply, as NEM-wide IRPM drops down to 11.48% on Wednesday 11th June 2025
Cold weather this evening has brought prices above $7,000/MWh and tight reserve margins across the NEM.
A map showing the geographic spread of semi-scheduled dispatch errors on Monday 26th May 2025
Dan adds to our ongoing case study into the events of Monday 26th May 2025, by mapping the dispatch error across all semi-scheduled units for the 16:15 dispatch interval that afternoon.
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Dan shares a short time-lapse video which demonstrates four days worth of activity in the NEM, highlighting the impact of network congestion in QLD and NSW.
Prices in QLD and NSW rise into the four digit mark on Thu 10th Apr 2025
Elevated prices struck QLD and NSW for the fourth night in a row - with spot prices climbing above the $1,000MWh mark briefly this afternoon.
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A string of SMS alarms alerts us to another burst of high prices in the two northern regions, early this evening
Three themes from the Energy Storage Summit 2025
Dan provides a brief write-up of his notes from attending the Australian Energy Storage Summit in Sydney last week.
The state-of-charge for 2024: The highs and lows of the big battery boom
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Keeping up with the curtailment 2024: A little? too much? or much ado about nothing?
Drawing from our freshly released GSD2024, Dan provides some deeper insights into curtailment in the NEM, beyond the headline totals that were a topic of much online discussion earlier this week.
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Dan looks at some recent and peculiar auto-clamping behaviour of interconnectors, and walks through the market arrangements causing these occurrences.