This is the 2026 edition of our annual review into Q2 spot prices, where we find that average prices fell sharply in all NEM regions compared to Q2 2025, but more importantly, duration curves are changing shape.
For nearly a decade, we’ve published annual reviews of Q2 prices to highlight the growing volatility during this period. Here’s our latest edition, examining how Q2 2025 compared.
Rainfall and cloud cover has split Australia this autumn, delivering a mixed bag of solar irradiance conditions for solar farms across the NEM.
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.
One year on from a market-wide suspension, Dan Lee provides a review of Q2 prices for 2023 so that we can examine some of the longer-term price trends.
After many years in a row, we return (in the midst of the '2022 Energy Crisis') to review the pricing patterns in the NEM and the WEM for Q2 2022.
As Q2 2021 unfolded, it seemed that there were many instances where prices spiked during evening demand peaks - and that wind output was low at the time. So I took a closer statistical look...
Prompted by last Friday's publication of the AER's 'Wholesale Markets Quarterly' for Q2 2021, here's a tabulated summary of some of the contributing factors of spot price volatility (and hence high average prices) for the quarter - particularly for QLD and NSW.
Now making it 5 out of the past 6 years, we return to the analysis of electricity (spot and futures) pricing patterns for Q2 periods across the NEM regions ... and also in Western Australia. We see a number of ways in which Q2 2021...
An old adage runs that to eat an elephant, it’s best to proceed in small servings. With a very eventful Q2 in the NEM not yet finished, the number of headline events is already large enough – unexpected price volatility in Queensland and NSW, a...
The volatility that has been with us for weeks now (particularly QLD and NSW), and the dramas unfolding at Callide power station, prompted me to have a broader look at the availability of black coal plant across QLD and NSW, and compare this to prior...
A year on from my review of "remarkable" prices seen in Q2 2016, I return to the same analysis and update for Q2 2017. Outcomes are even more extreme...