Whilst today saw the release of the draft 2026 ISP, some 'challenges of the future' are already here today - such as the increasingly large and common gyrations in 'Market Demand' seen in South...
There was some early morning price volatility in South Australia on Monday 8th December 2025 - a social media update from Michael Caravaggio from EPRI internationally prompts this article.
At 11:02 (NEM time) on Sunday 7th December 2025 the AEMO published MN131472 noting 'Actual MSL2' in South Australia
A quick note on Thursday evening 20th November 2025 to record this large size (214MW) drop in ‘Market Demand’ in the 17:50 dispatch interval NEM time this evening.
Adding to the distractions, more alerts from ez2view have drawn our attention to a series of Market Notices warning of forecast Minimum System Load (a.k.a. MSL) conditions for South Australia in the coming days.
Worth recording this other ez2view ‘Notification’ widget alert received at 14:11 (NEM time) on Thursday 6th November 2025 to mark a large-size drop in ‘Market Demand’ in South Australia.
A very short article with a snapshot from ez2view at the 11:15 dispatch interval – highlighting that Lower 1-second FCAS prices in the South Australian region are spiking (yet again!).
Following from the release of the 2025 ESOO last Thursday, the subsequent weekly MT PASA run warns of *forecast* LRC (and unserved energy) in South Australia.
On Sunday 24th August 2025, Administered Pricing for FCAS in South Australia ended ... when will the ‘S-TBTU’ constraint set re-emerge?
With Administered Pricing of all 10 x FCAS products in South Australia continuing into Monday 18th August 2025 (no surprise there), we take a second look.
AEMO notes that 'it has determined that an administered price period will commence at the trading interval starting 0520 on 17 August 2025' for FCAS in South Australia. We take a quick look...
A brief article to note the continued impact of the Tailem Bend to Tungkillo line outage on FCAS prices.
An updated look at conditions in SA early next week, where a forecast LOR3 is now appearing for next Wednesday. We also look at the invocation schedule for constraint sets within the region.
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.
Beginning Monday evening 23rd June 2025, the AEMO has forecast extremely tight supply-demand balance in South Australia (including possible load shedding) for Monday 30th June 2025.
Worth a short note to tag in this ‘Notification’ widget alert in ez2view triggered at 13:31 (NEM time) on Monday 26th May 2025 about a 235MW drop in ‘Market Demand’ in South Australia.
At 14:03 on Monday 12th May 2025 (in MN126998) the AEMO flagged a 'forecast LOR2' for South Australia for midday on Thursday 15th May 2025.
If I had time, we'd explore three separate questions we have about what happened in South Australia on Wednesday 12th February 2025. In this article we take a first pass at one of those...
A follow-on article focused on the 19:00 dispatch interval on Wednesday 12th February 2025 in South Australia (a very tight period for supply-demand balance).
With warnings that tomorrow could see high (higher!) demand in South Australia, we take a quick look at high demand experienced on Tuesday 11th February 2025.