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.
Guest author, Allan O’Neil, takes a detailed look at how VIC1-NSW1 transfer capability has been limited frequently due to constraints related to the 051 line in southern NSW, and what it means in terms of inter-regional settlements residue accumulations, market efficiency overall, and the energy transition.
A quick article recording the large reversal in Target Flow on VIC1-NSW1 interconnector … something we are seeing increasingly frequently.
For several reasons we take a look at a transmission outage in southern NSW that contributed to some volatility seen in QLD and NSW in the second half of May … and might also do in the second half of June 2023.
A quick article to capture volatility in QLD and NSW on Wednesday evening 24th May 2023.