SA price spike on Tue 12th March 2024 with rapid ramp in demand
A short article to document a price spike in SA on Tuesday afternoon 12th March 2024
A short article to document a price spike in SA on Tuesday afternoon 12th March 2024
A short record of the start of some price volatility in South Australia on Monday 11th March 2024.
A short record of evening volatility in VIC and SA during the heatwave on Sunday 10th March 2024.
A short note to record some slightly elevated demand in VIC and SA on Sat 9th March 2024 over a hot long weekend.
A quick look (Friday morning 8th March 2024) to moderately high levels of demand forecast for SA in heatwave conditions this long (Adelaide Cup Day) weekend.
A short article, recording the start of evening volatility in South Australia … and the coincident bushfire risk.
AEMO declares credible contingency possible with respect to transmission in South Australia, due to bushfires.
A quick record of some evening volatility in South Australia on Wednesday evening 21st February 2024
It was an article in the AFR, on the 6th of February 2024, that drew our attention back to generator closures. Engie have announced the early closure of Snuggery and Port Lincoln Power Stations.
Ben Skinner asks some philosophical questions about the Retail Reliability Obligation (RRO), and provides some commentary about its past and future.
A quick look back at Saturday 6th January 2024 in South Australia – and the case of an unforecast drop in ‘Market Demand’
Guest author Allan O’Neil continues our series of posts on very low system demand levels in South Australia and Victoria on New Year’s Eve, with a few unresolved questions remaining
Fourth article today, taking a quick look at neighbouring South Australia – which has also seen a new ‘lowest ever’ level of Market Demand.
Prices in SA have spiked to close to the market cap and remained elevated, following the invocation of the ‘I-VS_250’ constraint set due to extreme weather conditions.
In our third guest authored post this week, Blake Ashton from SA Power Networks talks about the SA islanding event that occurred just over twelve months ago – how SAPN managed solar curtailment, and how their new ‘flexible exports’ option can address future challenges.
Thunderstorms impacted parts of South Australia electricity system in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with two syncons tripping and around 30,000 customers experiencing outages.
A quick review of spot price volatility seen in South Australia on Thursday evening 9th November 2023.
We’re seeing an increasing number of claims on social media along the lines of ‘South Australia exporting more than it imports’. Whilst that was true around 2019, it’s NOT been the case for a number of years.
A quick review of a short period of ‘Actual LOR2’ in the South Australian region on Friday evening 27th October 2023.
In a rare occurrence (and perhaps a sign of the times), we noted that the cumulative price in SA turned negative yesterday afternoon.