Price volatility in South Australia Thursday evening 30th December 2021
This morning I’ve taken a quick look at market activity in South Australia on Thursday evening, 30th December 2021.
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Spot price volatility in QLD (and NSW) on Tuesday 21st December 2021
A quick look at this evening’s volatility.
Price volatility in South Australia on Thu 16th December 2021 reinforces observations in GenInsights21
Price volatility in South Australia on Wednesday morning, 16th December reminds of the observations made in GenInsights21
Price volatility in the South Australian region on Monday 13th December 2021
Some price volatility in South Australia on Monday 13th December 2021
Price Volatility continues in QLD on 4th October 2021, under Five Minute Settlement
A quick look at three price spikes seen late afternoon in QLD on Monday 4th October 2021.
Low wind production (inside NSW+QLD) was one other factor contributing to price volatility in Q2 2021
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…
A list of (some of) the factors contributing to the volatile price outcomes seen in Q2 2021 – particularly QLD and NSW
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.
Spot price up in QLD and NSW, with only 1,532MW of spare capacity Monday evening 12th July
A snapshot of the start of price volatility in QLD and NSW on Monday 12th July 2021.
Price volatility in the QLD region on Saturday 3rd July 2021
A rainy Saturday morning reminds us the price volatility for Q2 in QLD has not totally gone away … with elevated prices for ENERGY and also Contingency FCAS (Raise 6 second and Raise 60 second).
A Second Serving of the Q2 Elephant
For a second portion of Q2 “elephant eating”, I’ll look in some detail at the dynamics of an early instance of spot price volatility in Queensland, because many drivers turn out to be similar across other volatile intervals in the…
Eating the NEM’s Q2 Elephant – An Appetizer
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…
Evening volatility on Tuesday 15th June 2021
It was volatile this morning well past that’s become ‘normal’ and the volatility has returned (as I expected it would) this evening. Here’s the snapshot of the 17:20 dispatch interval from one of our NEMwatch v10 dashboards: As highlighted: 1) …
More persistent spot price volatility in the QLD region on Tuesday morning, 15th June 2021
Morning spot price volatility in the QLD region persists further into the morning (Tue 15th June) than has become expected.
Spot price volatility continues into Monday 14th June 2021
A short note to recognise the spot price volatility continuing for Monday 14th June 2021.
Pricing volatility on Friday 11th June 2021
First price spike at sunset (Friday 11th June 2021) … presumably with a number more bounces to go through the evening.
Evening volatility continues into Thursday 10th June 2021
A short article noting volatility rolls into Thursday evening, 10th June 2021
Demand, and prices, up in NSW and QLD on Wednesday 9th June 2021 … and low IRPM
A short note about the first of the volatility on Wednesday 9th June 2021.
Spot market volatility report – Thursday 3rd June 2021 (as at 17:54)
Evening spot price volatility has become a regular thing – here’s some of it for Thursday 3rd June 2021
And so the daily solar bedtime story continues … on Wednesday 2nd June 2021 (with 4 x Callide units off, etc…)
Only two dispatch intervals (thus far?) of extreme pricing tonight for QLD and NSW (Wed 2nd June 2021). Here’s the first one…
Price Volatility (now a regular evening event for QLD and NSW) on Tuesday 1st June kicked along by Darling Downs outage.
A number of things happened late today – with the trip of DDPS1 (only declare credible contingency earlier in the day) giving more impetus to spot price volatility in the QLD and NSW regions already facing tight supply/demand following the Callide catastrophe and LOR1 in NSW.