Useful to highlight that (at least in part due to wide-spread cloud cover suppressing solar yield) that we’re seeing quite positive wholesale spot prices less than 24 hours prior to ‘three hours free power’ going live…
Yesterday's low VRE conditions delivered a distinctly different market outcome (Mon 18th May 2026) than seen in the prior 8 days.
A quick look back at the period before easter 2024, which was forecast to be a wet week in QLD ... looking particularly at solar yield.
A short note (in conjunction with some analysis for GenInsights Quarterly Updates for 2023 Q4) about the narrow band of IRPM seen through the day on Monday 20th November 2023.
A quick article Monday evening about volatility in QLD.
Second short article, looking into what has been happening through Queensland on Thursday 11th November 2021.
A rainy Saturday morning reminds us the price volatility for Q2 in QLD has not totally gone away ... with elevated prices for ENERGY and also Contingency FCAS (Raise 6 second and Raise 60 second).
In between other jobs today, we've taken a look at why the price spiked yesterday (Tue 20th April) in QLD ... at an earlier time than we had become accustomed to seeing it occur in recent months.
Some quick notes today, to document high-level data (to be explored later) relating to some significantly depressed solar harvest data today due to the widespread cloud/wind event.