Riffing Monty Python (and now, for something completely different) another ez2view Mobile alert triggered, to notify me of this large change in NSW ‘Market Demand’ - on Wednesday 24th June 2026.
To follow on from this morning’s article, we see the re-emergence (into Wednesday afternoon 24th June 2026) of prices above $500/MWh in South Australia.
I assume a number of different stakeholders* are conducting their own retrospectives of large-scale** battery operations in South Australia over the recent windless (and quite volatile) days. Here's some questions.
It’s Wednesday morning 24th June 2026 and my pre-configured alerts delivered to ez2view Mobile have been busy – with the arrival of morning prices in South Australia above $500/MWh.
Whilst SA spot prices have been elevated over the past 24 hours (and indeed for days longer), in the past 24 hours the highest point was $845/MWh at the 18:55 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Tuesday evening 23rd June 2026.
Following up on the elevated prices in South Australia, here's a summary of bidding across four days - Friday 19th June 2026 to Monday 22nd June 2026
On Saturday 20th June 2026, aggregate wind yield fell in South Australia ... and has remained low since that time (into Tuesday 23rd June 2026)
On Monday 22nd June 2026 our team noticed several media articles about a new case, being brought before the Federal Court of Australia (relating to Callide C). So we've added this article, to document.
A useful comparison, 24 hours apart… 19:35 on Sunday 21st June and Monday 22nd June 2026.
A quick look at flow (and limits) over the VIC-to-SA interconnector on Saturday 20th, Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd June 2026.
At 08:46 (NEM time) on Monday 22nd June 2026 AEMO has published this follow-on MN 144315 noting 'AEMO is not declaring that an LOR3 forecast condition exists for this period'
Also worth noting that the past ~24 hours (Sunday 21st June 2026 into Monday 22nd June 2026) has seen low wind yield across the NEM
Breaking a prolonged period of price stability, we saw prices spike in TAS on Sunday evening 21st June 2026, and then a prolonged period of price action begin for SA through the night and into Monday 22nd June 2026.
On 24th March 2026 (i.e. 3 months ago now), the AER published this Consultation paper into possible updates to the AER’s ‘Rebidding and Technical Parameters Guideline’.
Todays article in the AFR by Angela MacDonald-Smith prompts an updated look at Kurri Kurri GT.
On Friday 29th May 2026, the AEMO alsodeclared Scheduling Errors (together anointed number 76), with respect to the joint glitches on Thu 6th Nov 2025 and Tue 11th Nov 2025.
Over three successive market notices since Sunday 7th June 2026, the AEMO’s been forecasting a LOR2 condition for South Australia for this Wednesday 10th June 2026.
A couple recent reasons prompt this long-range trend of Regulation FCAS services.
Today (Friday 5th June 2026) a couple of our readers prodded us to notice the News Update ‘Waratah Super Battery now operating at 700MW’ ... so we had a quick look.
Given prior analysis we'd written and published about two recent glitches (Fri 10th April and Sat 11th April 2026) it was not really a surprise, though it’s nice to know, that the AEMO declared both Scheduling Errors.