High NSW price forecasts not materialising in dispatch, 29th November 2024
A curious phenomenon we’ve been watching with interest today has been the somewhat persistent and alarmingly high predispatch price forecasts for NSW.
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Dan Lee’s reflections about ‘the year that was in 2023’ via the WattClarity insight service
Yesterday (Thu 22nd Dec 2023), Dan Lee posted a summary of WattClarity service through 2023 on our company website. Today I’m sharing that with WattClarity readers here.
Big Trouble For Bad Installers As Clean Energy Regulator Shows Its Teeth
Ron Brakels of SolarQuotes examines recent changes that will put the CER in charge of accreditation, which he explains is aimed at “kicking crap solar installers out of the industry”.
Who was the winner of our competition for LinkingIn to WattClarity?
Rather than just drawing a lucky winner out of a hat, or using a random number generator, someone suggested we take a different approach – and here are the results.
Estimating Hedge Levels
In my third post, I look at hedge levels – and how to infer them. Hedge levels will, to a large extend, define bidding behaviour unless there are physical issues with the plant.
Vertical Integration in New South Wales – two years on
It is now over two years ago that NSW sold its retail load and the dispatch rights to most of its generation. This blog post looks at what has happened to the market in the two years since the sale.
About Wind Diversity
A quick look at the extent to which wind supplies (across all wind turbines in the NEM) are diverse enough for supplies to have a degree of dependability.
Trend in annual Generator Utilisation by Region
A trend in annual average utilisation of generation plant, aggregated by region, over each year since the start of the NEM.
Trend in generation by fuel type
Brief analysis of the trend in production (across the NEM) by fuel type.
Brief recap on the historical trend in spot prices in the NEM
Some analysis of the way in which prices in the Australian National Electricity Market have trended over time, from as far back as 1994 (in the markets that were precursors to the NEM).
Post written to provide some context to considerations about where prices are headed for the future…
Historical Distributions in Spot Prices
Colourful distribution of spot prices – for each year of 11.5 years of NEM history.
Clearly see the trend over time.