An initial exploration of QLD’s spike at 14:30 on Thursday 21st December 2023
An initial look at the ‘out of the blue’ price spike in QLD at 14:30 on Thursday 21st December 2023.
‘Swim Lanes’ widget
Disallowed flow north on VIC1-NSW1 another significant factor in tight supply-demand in NSW + QLD
A quick look at how restrictions in southern NSW meant that Victoria could not export to NSW through the afternoon … hence contributing to the tight supply-demand situation.
Rainfall in northern Queensland contributes to price spike at 15:55 on Tuesday 20th April 2021
In between other jobs today, we’ve taken a look at why the price spiked yesterday (Tue 20th April) in QLD … at an earlier time than we had become accustomed to seeing it occur in recent months.
Case Study part 1 – Queensland price spikes to $15,000/MWh at 09:45 on Tuesday 13th October 2020 … coincident with many Large Solar Farms (tripping**)
Alerted to a price spike at 09:45 this morning in the QLD region, we discovered some reduction in load (spot-exposed Demand Response probably) and also a large collective trip in Solar Farm output (reasons unclear).
Not-So-Quick review of price spike in South Australian region yesterday (Thu 19th Dec) evening
Took 2-3 times longer than planned (as there were a few different interesting observations that came out) but here is our initial – and perhaps only! – review of what happened in South Australia on Thursday 19th December 2019 (i.e. yesterday).