How did Cyclone Alfred impact electricity demand?
By day-end on the Friday the 7th demand levels were down more than 40% in the Gold Coast. Other areas were also impacted.
TC Alfred
Tropical Cyclone Alfred (TC Alfred) impacted Northern NSW and South-East Queensland over a few days in early March 2025.
Here’s a collation of articles pertaining to its effects (at the wholesale market level).
Down to ~17,000 customers off supply in south-east Queensland (not forgetting northern NSW)
It’s Friday morning 14th March 2025 and a quick review at the Energex Outage finder shows that we’re down to ‘only’ ~17,000 customers off supply
ex-TC Alfred makes landfall overnight, many more unplanned network outages result
It’s Sunday morning 9th March 2025 and a reference to the Energex Outage Map shows many more orange splotches denoting unplanned outages (by virtue of ex-TC Alfred).
Power Outages in Northern NSW and South-East Queensland at Saturday morning 8th March 2025
A Saturday morning update (8th March 2025) following the overnight advance of TC Alfred.
Friday morning update from WeatherWatch, and TC Alfred
Because not all have access to Anthony Cornelius' updates on LinkedIn, but many are interested in TC Alfred, I have shared Anthony's update from Friday morning 7th March...
More network trips in northern NSW, on Friday 7th March 2025 (is TC Alfred involved?)
The AEMO notes that, at 06:12 (NEM time) on Friday 7th March 2025 various 132kV lines between Lismore and Mullumbimby tripped, along with No 1 and 2 cables...
High level uncertainty about daytime QLD (and to a lesser extent NSW) ‘Market Demand’ with TC Alfred
AEMO is seeing considerable uncertainty in forecasting daytime 'Market Demand' for QLD (and NSW, to lesser extent) in the near term due to uncertainties in the approach of...
Unplanned outage of No 1 leg of Directlink (was this related to the emergence of TC Alfred?)
AEMO says 'At 1030 hrs the Ewingsdale-Mullumbimby 9G5 132kV line and the Directlink DC1 tripped'. Was this related to TC Albert?