low ‘Instantaneous Reserve Plant Margin’

Articles tagged with ‘low Instantaneous Reserve Plant Margin’ are catalogued here.

 

See this page for an explanation of IRPM … how it’s calculated, and what it means.






Volatility in the market over winter 2007

Our Managing Director spoke at the "Australian Energy & Utility Summit 08" in Sydney on Tuesday 22nd July 2008, touching on issues including the extremes of price volatility that were experienced over winter 2007.




Winter 2007 – NEM-wide shortage of capacity

For two remarkable winter evenings in 2007 (19th and 20th June specifically) NEM-Wide Instantaneous Reserve Plant Margin (IRPM) plunged to the lowest levels ever seen in the NEM (a mere 7.6%) as generators were...


21st November 2006 – demand spike in NSW

There was a temperature-driven spike in demand in NSW on Tuesday 21st November 2006. These sweltering temperatures combined with bushfires to cause localised blackouts in the Sydney city area, as reported in the Sydney...