Because it proved useful in providing a tabular summary for Wednesday evening 11th June 2025, in this article I've done a similar thing here with respect to Thursday evening 12th June 2025.
Worth a short article with this NEMwatch snapshot at 07:50 to mark some price action on Friday morning 13th June 2025.
Approximately 8 hours after the return to service journey at Loy Yang A1 commenced, a similar journey has been commenced at Callide B2 this morning.
The volatility of Thursday evening 12th June 2025 had ended by that time (though not by much), but it’s worth noting that the Loy Yang A1 unit commenced its return to service journey last...
Another quick article about the low IRPM (instantaneous reserve plant margin) on Thursday 12th June 2025.
One other snippet of information to share this evening (Thursday 12th June 2025) is about the low NEM-wide wind harvest... lower than earlier forecasts.
Worth a short note on Thursday 12th June 2025 to highlight the short-lived return to service at YWPS4:
Following yesterday evening's volatility, it's happening again on Thursday evening 12th June 2025.
Wednesday evening 11th June 2025 was a period of tight supply-demand balance, hence energy price volatility – and so this article reviews the response of the demand-side.
We take a first look at bidding across all units (aggregated up) for Wednesday 11th June 2025, with the volatile evening period of particular interest.
We start with this colour-coded tabular record of a 4-hour period (16:00 to 20:00 NEM time on Wednesday 11th June 2025) as a reference point for further analysis of the evening volatility.
Cold weather this evening has brought prices above $7,000/MWh and tight reserve margins across the NEM.
A very quick note for Wednesday 11th June 2025 with this snapshot from NEMwatch at 17:00 (NEM time) to record the start of some elevated prices.
Yesterday (Tuesday 10th June 2025) at 14:21 the AEMO published MN127491 that noted 'The increase in USE in Queensland ... is primarily driven by network outages scheduled between 17 and 20 June 2025'.
A cold winter evening (Tuesday 10th June 2025) is driving electricity demand higher, as captured in this snapshot from NEMwatch at the 18:10 dispatch interval.
Yallourn unit 3 came offline for a tube leak - but ABC reports (on Mon 9th June 2025) that 'an air duct in unit three collapsed during maintenance', so we take an initial look.
On Thursday 5th June 2025, the NSW Government released its 158-page report into ‘The electricity outages affecting Far West NSW in October 2024’.
This article uses the ‘Forecast Convergence’ widget, snapshot from ez2view at 07:25 on Monday 9th June 2025 to sum up some changing forecasts for LOR1 and/or LOR2 in QLD, NSW and VIC in the...
Yesterday (Sunday 8th June 2025) saw the commencement of the new Frequency Performance Payments (a.k.a. FPP) method.
Winter 2025 has arrived, with a cold front driving high wind production - which prompts this initial look in wind production for 2025 Q2 to date.