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.
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~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.
NSW ‘market demand’ climbing (Tuesday afternoon 28th January 2025) but not to extremes
An updated view (at 13:55) of the NSW region on a hot summer's afternoon on Tue 28th Jan 2025.
With heat building, is NSW the one to watch today? (Tuesday 28th January 2025)
A short article looking ahead to the afternoon/evening for NSW on Tuesday 28th January 2025.
QLD ‘Market Demand’ reached 10,897MW on Friday 24th January 2025 (3rd highest day ever)
We’ve checked with NEMwatch in this snapshot for the 18:35 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Friday 24th January 2025 and we see that the ‘Market Demand’ reached 10,897MW (target for the 17:45 dispatch interval).
QLD ‘Market Demand’ passes 10,500MW at 16:45 on Friday 24th January 2025 and is climbing
Contemplating the end of the day, and looming sunset, a quick look at NEMwatch at 16:45 NEM time to see the ‘Market Demand’ at 10,543MW and climbing.
A quick review of Queensland bidding over recent days (incl Wed 22nd Jan 2025)
Whilst we're waiting to see where 'Market Demand' lands for Friday 24th January 2025 (we might report that later), I was curious in terms of supply-side performance of units over the past 4 days...
Reintroduction of ‘forecast LOR2’ for QLD for Friday 24th January 2025, with strengthening forecast for ‘Market Demand’
An updated view (via ‘Forecast Convergence’ in ez2view) for forecast demand for QLD on Friday afternoon/evening 24th January 2025 ... and reintroduction for 'forecast LOR2'.
The two rare events that drove NEM wind power in 2024
Ashleigh Madden of WeatherZone discusses how the the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and a rare sudden stratospheric warming impacted the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and wind generation during the 2024 calendar year.
Guest Authored Posts
What the hail is happening with Brisbane’s weather?
Anthony Cornelius from WeatherWatch explains the climate drivers behind Southeast Queensland’s unusually intense 2025 hail season — context that matters for those tracking how extreme weather is evolving and influencing the energy market.
Why network outages matter for generator and storage revenue, risk and investment decisions
Nadali Mahmoudi from EPEC Group presents a short case study to show why network-outage modelling is essential for understanding revenue opportunities, curtailment risk and long-term investment decisions.
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