The volatility experienced in southern regions on Wednesday evening 8th July 2026 was due to a combination of factors - here's 4 of them (though there are others, also).
Guest author, Allan O'Neil, goes into some detail of exploring the various factors contributing to the price volatility in South Australia that bookended the night of Sunday 21th June into Monday 22nd June 2026.
It’s Wednesday morning 24th June 2026 and my pre-configured alerts delivered to ez2view Mobile have been busy – with the arrival of morning prices in South Australia above $500/MWh.
We’re not going to cover every machination, but worth noting these pretty clear indications of what might be ~300MW sized Demand Response on two occasions on Friday afternoon 6th February 2026.
As noted in this NEMwatch snapshot at 13:35 (NEM time) on Friday 6th February 2026, a very similar pattern (perhaps including similar behaviours) is emerging today, with similar afternoon volatility in NSW.
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.
We’re busy focused on other things at present, so just a NEMwatch snapshot at 13:25 (NEM time) on Thursday 20th November 2025 to mark some volatility in the NSW region.
There was a short-lived (but interesting) price spike for ENERGY in the NSW region on Friday evening 10th October 2025. Here's a first look.
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.
If we had been in the previous financial year, the old CPT of $1,573,700 would have been tripped.
Spot price volatility occurs in SA on 2 July 2025, yet not to the level that risks exceeding the cumulative price threshold.
Another run of energy spot price volatility occurred on Friday 27th June 2025.
The NSW dispatch energy price jumped to 17,560 $/MWh in the 16:50 dispatch interval on 28 May, 2025.
Yesterday (Tuesday 13th May 2025) we quickly noted a period of volatility that was mainly focused on the NSW region. Here's a second step in understanding contributing factors...
In this article we take an initial look at bidding across some instances of price volatility from Monday 7th April 2025 to Friday 11th April 2025.
A short record of spot price volatility in NSW on Tuesday afternoon 4th February 2025.
A quick snapshot of some volatility in Contingency Raise FCAS Prices in QLD spanning Wednesday 9th October 2024, Thursday 10th October 2024, Friday 11th October 2024.
Recording a snapshot from NEMwatch at the 18:00 dispatch interval on Sunday 8th December 2024 to record the start of a run of volatility in QLD (and in NSW).
Worth a brief article with this NEMwatch snapshot at 14:15 (NEM time) with the spot price in South Australia at $12,500.44/MWh.
A short record of some high prices in NSW and QLD from 17:35 (NEM time) on Monday 2nd December 2024.