Fig 1: NSW power generation, prices and temperatures We see the critical day was Thursday, Jan 31st with temperatures up to 39.3 degrees. Coal generation was 8,853 MW (out of a scheduled…
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Victoria became power importer in January 2019 heatwave
Fig 1: 7 days power generation in Victoria (screenshot from the Open NEM website) https://opennem.org.au/#/regions/vic In order to understand the above graph we have to know how Excel is dealing with negative…
Victoria’s 600 MW brown coal plant outage leads to price spike but system survives
Yesterday, 22 Jan 2019, total power demand on Australia’s East Coast reached – just like 5 days earlier – the 35 GW mark. Fig 1: Power generation by source for 5 East…
NSW power imports in January 2019 heatwave exceed 2 GW, drive up electricity prices
Maximum demand for electricity increased from 9,500 MW on 13 Jan 2019 (16:00) to a whopping 14,000 MW on 17 Jan 2019 (17:30). Fig 1: Heatwave pushing up power demand Pic 2:…
Victoria brown coal power plant lost 1,600 MW over 4 hrs
Who can give a National Energy Guarantee? A better energy future for Australia https://www.energy.gov.au/government-priorities/better-energy-future-australia Something must have happened at a brown coal fired power plant in Victoria, on 2 August 2018 in…
Sydney go on your rooftops and save power for 3 million new immigrants
The latest report “Integrated System Plan” of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) assumes that power consumption on Australia’s East Coast will stay rather flat despite government engineered immigration resulting in a…
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 2)
Part 2 Eraring, Mt Piper, Vales Pt Introduction: The NSW government is selling Snowy Hydro to the Federal Government, thereby demonstrating beyond doubt that it is abrogating its duty of care to…
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 1)
14/3/2018 Part 1 Bayswater and Liddell power plants Introduction The Australian public has no idea how tight Australia’s power generation is in hot summers. A recent 4 corners program on population growth driven…
Australia’s east coast solar generation is replacing coal by only 2% in late summer
This is an analysis of late summer. Data are taken from Open NEM: http://opennem.org.au/# The graphs in this post are a bit different from those on the above website Fig 1: Generation…
Power supply in Australia’s New South Wales: how will it cope in coming heatwave?
This post on power supplies will be updated from time to time as we sweat through the coming days. Figs 1,3 and 4 are based on data available on Fri, 27th Jan…