December 9, 2016Continue Reading
Electricity price rises are primarily driven by uncertainty, which pushes up the price of futures and forward rate electricity contracts. These financial instruments are needed by energy suppliers (generators and…
December 7, 2016Continue Reading
Wholesale electricity markets continue to trend upward largely due to uncertainty relating to the future mix of generation. Specifically, how much longer will we have the cost-benefit of cheap brown…
November 13, 2016Continue Reading
The much-publicised announcement confirming the closure of Hazelwood Power Station has fueled extraordinary electricity price rises, particularly in Victoria. Sadly for electricity consumers, further coal-fired plant closures in the Latrobe…
November 13, 2016Continue Reading
Wholesale electricity markets continue to trend up due to supply-side generation challenges and rising coal and natural gas prices. For the month of October, Electricity futures in all states increased…
October 18, 2016Continue Reading
Uncertainty is prevailing in wholesale electricity markets across the NEM, with the future of the Hazelwood brown coal power station potentially being decided by the end of this week. Hazelwood’s…
October 5, 2016Continue Reading
NSW (Increase) Wholesale futures prices in NSW trended up significantly in the month of September with an average increase of over 10%. This was in part driven by speculation relating…
October 5, 2016Continue Reading
The statewide power outage in South Australia on the afternoon of 28th September created a media frenzy with vested interests from all sides quick to lay blame for what contributed…
September 27, 2016Continue Reading
SA’s power shock sounds national electricity alarm Updated September 25, 2016 19:31:52 An extraordinary spike in South Australia’s wholesale electricity price in July sounded an alarm across the five states…
September 27, 2016Continue Reading
The threat of Hazelwood being shut down as early as April next year may not be a threat to Australia’s electricity supply…. but its certainly impacting confidence and delivering more…
A featherbed too big The performance of electricity networks under stress due to temporary reductions in capacity or peaks in demand is a public issue with a high profile; just…
