A brief reminder about the complexity of measuring ‘Demand’ …
There’s essentially three measures of demand that are commonly talked about, and they are not really interchangeable.
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A trend of daily peak NEM-wide ‘Market Demand’– from 1st January 2008 to 31st January 2025
With respect to forecasts for peak NEM-wide ‘Market Demand’ in summer 2024-25 (and particularly following Friday’s article) we fielded a few questions about how extreme that might be. So we thought we'd provide this...
(Mysterious and) Large drop in NSW ‘Market Demand’ late afternoon Friday 31st January 2025, prompting questions … part 1
Coincident with the walk home this afternoon/evening, the ‘Notifications’ widget in one of our display copies of ez2view alerted us to a large drop of ‘Market Demand’ in the NSW region … at a...
Forecasts ‘hotting up’, for NEMwide demand on Monday 3rd February 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.
Shortly after the QED, the AER also publishes is Quarterly Review of 2024 Q4
Also on Thursday 30th January 2024 the AER released its Wholesale Markets Quarterly for 2024 Q4 (within hours of the AEMO's release of the QED for 2024 Q4).
AEMO’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) for 2024 Q4
On Thursday 30th January 2025, the AEMO published its Quarterly Energy Dynamics for 2024 Q4. Here's some of the coverage of that which we have seen ....
Interconnector intricacies: double and triple auto-clamping of pesky negative residues
Dan looks at some recent and peculiar auto-clamping behaviour of interconnectors, and walks through the market arrangements causing these occurrences.
Higher NEMwide demand forecasts for Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th February 2025
A quick look (at Thursday morning 30th Jan 2025) out the coming week in AEMO's ST PASA forecasts.
~13 months later, a GSD2024-inspired review of operations at Cohuna Solar Farm through 2024
We're reviewing a draft of the GSD2024 (release coming soon), and a 9-month outage at Cohuna Solar Farm in 2024 jumped out at us and prompted questions ...
PEC Stage 1 in operation – be careful what you wish for
Guest author Allan O'Neil looks at how operation of Project EnergyConnect Stage 1 may affect market outcomes, with some early indications that impacts won't be as straightforward as you might think.
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How the NEM BESS fleet is operating on peak days, and how to be a savvy operator
In this guest article, Matt Grover from Fluence draws on operational data and real-world trading experience to unpack how Australia’s grid-scale batteries performed across three June 2025 peak days — and what capabilities belong...
Why Gladstone’s prospective closure reveals a new kind of NEM failure
With the Queensland state government’s new energy roadmap due out tomorrow, Greg Elkins highlights how distorted signals and state interventions expose a new NEM failure.
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