Cool and clear conditions in the south of the NEM sees new 'lowest ever' points for Market Demand established in both VIC and SA on Thursday 25th December 2025.
It’s Wednesday 23rd December 2025, and Brisbanites have sweated through a night that saw the overnight *minimum* 'Market Demand' be the highest ever.
A snapshot from NEMwatch at 10:55 on Saturday 4th October 2025, highlighting NEM-wide ‘Market Demand’ down at 9,393MW - a new lowest point?
Worth a quick note with a NEMwatch snapshot at 10:35 (NEM time) on Sunday 31st August 2025 to mark the ‘lowest ever*’ point for ‘Market Demand’ nudging lower still in the Queensland region.
Another quick article for Sunday 17th August 2025 – this one noting a new 'lowest ever*' point for 'Market Demand' in Queensland, just shaving prior record from a year ago.
Second article pertaining to the remarkably low level of 'Market Demand' in NSW on Sunday 16th February 2025.
From the 12:05 dispatch interval, today's series of SMS alerts has started from the 12:05 dispatch interval (NEM time) announcing new ‘lowest ever*’ points for ‘Market Demand’ in NSW.
We wondered what the very, very low demand forecast for NSW (on Sat 26th Oct 2024) that might mean for NEM-wide demand – so we flipped the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widgets to look at NEM-wide...
With forecasts for a very, very low level of 'Market Demand' tomorrow (Sat 26th Oct 2024) in NSW, here's a longer term trend to show how it would fit in context.
It was only 5 days (on Sunday 20th October 2024) when we saw a new 'lowest ever*' point for 'Market Demand' in NSW ... so we're amazed to see AEMO forecasting a low point...
In the following dispatch interval (11:50 on Sunday 20th October 2024) the level of 'Market Demand' fell ~200MW ... below the prior 'lowest ever*' point set a few weeks earlier.
The 'Market Demand' in South Australia has fallen to its lowest ever point, on Saturday 19th October, and is forecast to fall lower still (in part because Olympic Dam is offline).
A short article capturing a new lowest point for 'Market Demand' in NSW on Sunday 8th October 2024.
Third article already on Friday 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). Forecasts now down...
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).
With forecasts for low demand tomorrow (Sat 28th Sept 2024) in VIC during the middle of the day, we take a quick look at how forecasts compare to prior low points.
A quick update (early Friday 27th September 2024) looking at AEMO's successive forecasts for 'Market Demand' in Victoria for Saturday 28th September 2024 (timed for just prior to center bounce for AFL GF, and...
On Sunday 22nd September 2024 the minimum demand point for 'Market Demand' in NSW dropped lower still.
The 'Minimum Demand' point in NSW is dropping further still, on Saturday 21st September 2024.
On Sunday 1st September 2024 the 'minimum demand' point in NSW ratcheted lower still - a drop of 6% on the preceding 'lowest ever' point set just over 10 months ago.