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 …
ABC Article: SA weather: Safety settings caused wind farms to reduce output during SA’s blackout, regulator says
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/sa-weather-safety-settings-caused-wind-farms-to-fail-blackout/7945450 …
Wholesale Energy Markets Brace for Hazelwood Announcement
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 …
Electricity Rates in Review – September 2016
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 …
South Australia’s enormous July power price spike sounds national electricity alarm: Grattan Institute
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-25/sa’s-power-price-spike-sounds-national-electricity-alarm/7875970 …
Closing Victoria’s Hazelwood power station is no threat to electricity supply… but certainly a threat to stable wholesale electricity prices
The threat of Hazelwood being shut down as early as April next year may not be a threat to Australia’s electricity supply…. but it’s certainly impacting confidence and delivering more …
