Some remarks on Victorian demand
Allan O’Neil takes a closer look at Victorian electricity demand on Sunday, February 2nd — which stood out as an unprecedented anomaly when looking at the history of weekend demand in the region.
Read MoreAllan O’Neil takes a closer look at Victorian electricity demand on Sunday, February 2nd — which stood out as an unprecedented anomaly when looking at the history of weekend demand in the region.
Read MoreAfter a pretty remarkable evening (on Monday 3rd February 2025) here’s some statistics in terms of how today’s peak demand levels rate in comparison with the most recent 6,244 days (i.e. back to 1st January 2008).
A quick mid-afternoon article with a snapshot from NEMwatch at 14:55 (NEM time) to highlight the current status.
A summary of the current extreme weather being experienced in North Queensland, and related impacts we’ve seen on electricity demand, generation and the transmission network in the area.
An update (at 09:00 NEM time) on AEMO’s more recent forecasts for peak demand levels for this evening Monday 3rd February 2025.
Yesterday we posted ‘All 6 coal units at Gladstone coincidentally out on unplanned outage this coming week?’. Two readers noted in comments about Industrial Action for the station this week, so we take a closer look …. (incl the AEMO forecast LOR conditions for QLD + VIC and SA this week)
Worth also adding in a short note with this snapshot from ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view at the 18:00 on Sunday 2nd February 2025 with all 6 units at Gladstone slated to be offline simultaneously for unplanned outage for a few days this week.
Here’s an updated view of AEMO’s forecasts for ‘Market Demand’ across the NEM (and Victoria) for Mon 3rd Feb and Tue 4th Feb 2025 – from the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget in ez2view at the 12:55 dispatch (NEM time) on Sun 2nd Feb 2025.
Following our earlier article from ~24 hours earlier, at look at ez2view shows that it’s been ‘hotting up’ for demand forecasts for Monday 3rd February 2025.
A quick look (at Thursday morning 30th Jan 2025) out the coming week in AEMO’s ST PASA forecasts.