With a severe weather warning issued for much of Australia (with Sydney and Brisbane almost being the only exceptions) and lasting several days, it's timely to look at what AEMO is forecasting demand to...
An interesting day in the NEM today, with prices gyrating across a wide spectrum, and across all four mainland regions - on the back of higher demand in Victoria and South Australia due to...
Some quick observations about the price spikes observed yesterday on the back of high temperature-driven demand in Victoria.
Following some questions yesterday (from clients and others) we take a quick look at how Yallourn Power Station is progressing in coming back from outage caused by inundation from the nearby river.
Some quick notes today, on day #2 of the Carbon Tax, prompted by some prices that jumped all around the place (not so much due to carbon, though).
A quick look at the demand levels on Saturday 25th driven by hot weather in VIC and SA. What would have happened had this been on a weekday?
High temperatures in Victoria and South Australia - but demand is still well down on the all-time records for those regions.
Just after midday today (Wednesday 21st April) South Australia and Victoria experienced some high spot prices. Here's a quick post to highlight what happened.
Prices in South Australia and Victoria have been high this afternoon, jumping up over $2000 in both states at 3pm NEM-time today.
Some notes about the heatwave in SA and VIC, and what it means for the NEM
Some quick notes on what's happened in the NEM today (17th) and yesterday (16th)
A few brief notes about a hot day across the mainland, with demand levels high in each of the 4 mainland regions
Some quick notes about another price spike today in the South Australian region of Australia's National Electricity Market
Wednesday 28th January saw demand across the NEM jump to unprecedented levels, setting a new record of 34,843MW at 16:00 NEM time. On Thursday 29th January, we saw the demand increase still further, leading...
The day is not over yet, but we thought you would be interested in the attached snapshot highlighting the first of the occasions on the day when prices jumped to VOLL in SA and...
On 13th November, NEMMCO released the final version of its report into the Power System Incident "Unplanned Outages of HWTS-LYPS line on 23 July 2008"
Following from the blackout, several government bodies, and industry organisations completed reviews of the events leading up to the blackout. For completeness, these reports (at least, those we are aware of) have been listed...
With demand soaring, and interconnectors constrained, generators in South Australia and Victoria took what opportunity they had to force the price high. So successful were the South Australian generators that the Cumulative Price Threshold...
In March 2008 (after summer had officially ended) South Australians were forced to endure a record 15 straight days of temperatures climbing above 35ºC. Victorians also experienced extreme heat for a number of days....
Our second review was prepared in conjunction with the release of NEM-Watch version 7 (including the new NEM-Watch portal at www.NEM-Watch.info) in March 2007.