Not long after speaking with a client about forecast evening volatility in NSW for Wednesday 15th January 2025, we see price spikes beginning at 14:00 in the afternoon. So we take a first look….
On Monday evening 13th January we noted a short-notice ‘Actual LOR2’ in NSW. In this article we take a look at the VIC1-NSW1 interconnector, and particularly the impact of the ‘N::N_MNYS_2’ constraint equation, in limiting the ability of imports from the south to ameliorate.
For several reasons, we’ve reviewed some afternoon volatility in NSW on Friday 6th December 2024.
Here’s a quick 14-day review of the operation of the VIC1-NSW1 interconnector, including the price difference across it.
In this article on Wednesday evening 20th November 2024 we suggest a couple factors to keep an eye on, leading into the expected tight supply-demand balance (and possible load shedding) in NSW on Tuesday 26th November 2024.
We already noted this a few times recently, but we thought it would be worth separating out as its own article under the ‘Energy Literacy’ category, as it’s likely we’ll be referring back to it increasingly in future.
A very quick record of evening volatility in QLD and NSW on Friday 15th November 2024.
Monday evening 11th November 2024 sees volatility return in QLD initially, and soon also in NSW.
As time permits, we’re chipping away at an exploration of the volatility in QLD and NSW on Thursday 7th November 2024. In this article we take another step in understanding the ‘N-MNYS_5_WG_CLOSE ’ constraint set.
There were not as many SMS pings on Friday 8th November 2024 as there were for price alerts the day before, with the only 4 dispatch intervals in QLD and NSW above $1,000/MWh.
A quick summary about the presence of constraints limiting the ability of the southern regions to help, via the VIC1-NSW1 interconnector, on Thursday 7th November 2024.
Worth a short note, given the alerts from ez2view have continued to buzz in recent days, as the AEMO continues to update forecast LOR2 warnings for both QLD and NSW regions for Thursday 7th November 2024.
A second article providing some more detail on the spot price volatility in NSW on Tuesday evening 7th May 2024
In this article we look again at Tuesday 13th February 2024 (Victoria’s ‘Major Power System Event’) and sum up the impact of the event on net exports from Victoria over a 14-hour period, but particularly around ~13:08 when the towers were downed.
Prompted by the other article today, I’ve taken a look at published information about the required operations of the Victoria Big Battery (VBB) under the System Integrity Protection System (SIPS).
Took a first look at the 15:10 price spike to the $16,600/MWh Market Price Cap in NSW on Thu 29th Feb 2024.
A short article to record a question from a client that we did not have time to investigate further today.
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.
NSW ‘Market Demand’ exceeds 13,000MW for the first time today (Thu 14th Dec 2023)
Some volatility in QLD and NSW on Tuesday 5th December 2023.