On slide from the Endgame seminar today in Brisbane focused on the recent 4-day wind lull in South Australia. Many points resonated, but I want to flag just two ...
This is the 2026 edition of our annual review into Q2 spot prices, where we find that average prices fell sharply in all NEM regions compared to Q2 2025, but more importantly, duration curves are changing shape.
Guest author, Allan O'Neil, goes into some detail of exploring the various factors contributing to the price volatility in South Australia that bookended the night of Sunday 21th June into Monday 22nd June 2026.
With the wind having awoken in South Australia (late Wednesday 24th June 2026), we ask how long it was asleep for.
I wonder ... if the current 4-day 'Wind Lull' in South Australia is worse than any 4-day stint in South Australia during that infamous NEM-wide wind lull in 2024 Q2?
We just witnessed another eventful Q2, with at least four drivers contributing to significant price volatility. This is our annual review of Q2 prices, where we compare these outcomes against the long-term trend.
The ABC report that a notable weather record was broken in Tasmania this morning, and opens questions about future wind lulls and a changing climate.
A view of cumulative total wind production in Q2, highlighting a lack of spatial resource diversity, and the future challenges for gas and long-duration storage.
With the April-May 2024 period ending with 3 days during which it blew a gale, this wind powered energy generation provided some small boost to aggregate results in 2024 that disappointed when compared against 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020.
Ashleigh Madden of WeatherZone reports that a cold front has marched across southern Australia, breaking the week-long wind lull.