A hot Saturday could have driven demand higher – but how much?
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?
Victoria
Hot in VIC and SA – but demand not climbing past the green zone
High temperatures in Victoria and South Australia – but demand is still well down on the all-time records for those regions.
Price spikes in SA and VIC on 21st April
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.
Playback of high prices in SA and VIC
Prices in South Australia and Victoria have been high this afternoon, jumping up over $2000 in both states at 3pm NEM-time today.
Heatwave ramps up in southern Australia, dragging prices higher
Some notes about the heatwave in SA and VIC, and what it means for the NEM
Temperature Spikes drive Demand higher this week
Some quick notes on what’s happened in the NEM today (17th) and yesterday (16th)
High temperatures force demand high, NEM-Wide (and prices follow)
A few brief notes about a hot day across the mainland, with demand levels high in each of the 4 mainland regions
Prices spike in South Australia today
Some quick notes about another price spike today in the South Australian region of Australia’s National Electricity Market
Massive Demand, Huge Prices, Load Shedding and the Cumulative Price Threshold (and lessons learnt?)
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 to prices that stayed high for much of the day (to the point where the Cumulative Price Threshold was reached in VIC and SA and price caps were imposed), and a relatively small amount of involuntary load shedding occurring in VIC and SA.
New record all-time NEM-wide demand (and for VIC and SA) today!
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 VIC as a result of searing temperatures stopping the tennis, and melting VIC and SA into new demand records for each region.
NEMMCO Report: Unplanned Outages of HWTS-LYPS line on 23 July 2008
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”
Links to external reports relating to the blackout
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 in this article.
Our review of the heat wave in South Australia
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 was reached in South Australia and, under NEM Rules, an Administered Price Cap was applied for a period of time.
March 2008 – Massive Heat-Wave hits SA & Victoria
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. This sweltering weather forced demand through…
Second review of the blackout on Tuesday, 16th January 2007
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.
Weekly summary of events in Summer 2006-2007
We compiled a week-by-week summary of interesting events that occurred in the NEM – from 19th November 2006 through until 16th January 2007 (the day of the blackout).
Our initial review of the blackout on Tuesday, 16th January 2007
Our first review, linked here, was prepared the night of the blackout itself, and provides a chronological history of events, as seen through the NEM-Watch™ application.
Nous Report, into blackout of 16th January 2007
Note about the NOUS Group report on the blackout in Victoria of 16th January 2007
16th January 2007 – Bushfires and Victoria’s blackout
Victoria experiences a large blackout in the afternoon and evening of 16 January 2007, when bush fires cause three main transmission lines to trip. This created chaos throughout much of Melbourne, and represented perhaps the most significant stress the NEM…
11th January 2007 – first spike in demand above 30,000MW
There was a temperature-driven spike in demand across the NEM later in the week beginning Sunday 7th January – culminating in the summer’s first demand peak above 30,000MW (on Thursday 11th January).
On this occasion, the spot price spiked above $1000/MWh in Queensland, NSW, Snowy and Victoria,