The heat from yesterday in Victoria made its way north across the Murray river border today, leading to (somewhat) higher demand in NSW – as seen in the following snapshot from NEM-Watch at 16:20 market time:
As noted in the snapshot, demand at 16:20 was 12,380MW (pushing into the yellow zone), and forecast to be higher tomorrow – though still a long way below the all-time maximum demand.
It would be, if it holds true to forecast, the highest so far this summer, though – higher than that seen in NSW on 21st January.
One of three founders of Global-Roam back in 2000, Paul has been CEO of the company since that time.
As an author on WattClarity, Paul's focus has been to help make the electricity market more understandable.
We watched with interest today as demand crept up in all mainland regions to the point where the NEM-Wide demand rose slightly above 33,000MW for the first time ever, during a summer period.
Over the period of summer 2006-07, we prepared a number of articles about other occasions of note in the NEM (in addition to the blackout of 16th January 2007, which has been written about separately).
In Queensland we experienced one of the mildest summers I can remember. As a result of this, demand levels were subdued for most of summer. However, for a couple of days in late February, summer finally arrived, and struck with a vengeance.
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