WEEK COMMENCING 2015-12-13

week 50 of 2015

We report (graphically) some aspects of the National Electricity Market (NEM) for the week 2015-12-13 to 2015-12-20.

Note all times are in NEM-time, or Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Data is sourced from

  • AEMO’s 5 minute dispatch data for scheduled generation units.
  • AEMO’s half hourly aggregated price and demand data
  • AEMO’s emission intensity data

DISPATCH

Dispatch coloured by fuel type for each region (inclduing the NEM) in terms of

  • total megawatts output,
  • as a percentage of total dispatch, and
  • as a percentage of the total regulated capacity for the specified fuel type.

NEM

Dispatch by REGIONID - megawatts
NSW QLD SA TAS VIC NEM
MW 7817.3 7039.9 1709.0 883.3 6314.6 23764.2
% 32.9 29.6 7.2 3.7 26.6 100.0

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 12590.5 5688.2 1392.7 3249.9 37.5 41.8 763.7
% Dispatch 53.0 23.9 5.9 13.7 0.2 0.2 3.2
% Fuel Capacity 64.5 72.6 16.4 29.2 2.7 26.8 22.8

NSW1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 6977.56 - 148.14 538.63 0.2 41.81 110.99
% Dispatch 89.26 - 1.90 6.89 - 0.53 1.42
% Fuel Capacity 68.14 - 5.89 26.82 0.14 26.84 17.44

Generation stations shown only if they averaged more than 50 MW.

QLD1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 5612.90 - 33.39 1360.97 32.67 - -
% Dispatch 79.73 - 0.47 19.33 0.46 - -
% Fuel Capacity 68.88 - 5.21 44.10 3.23 - -

Generation stations shown only if they averaged more than 120 MW.

SA1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW - 495.33 - 844.89 4.62 - 364.19
% Dispatch - 28.98 - 49.44 0.27 - 21.31
% Fuel Capacity - 64.33 - 31.67 2.48 - 25.51

Generation stations shown only if they averaged more than 30 MW.

TAS1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW - - 793.86 5.38 - - 84.06
% Dispatch - - 89.87 0.61 - - 9.52
% Fuel Capacity - - 35.20 1.45 - - 27.29

Generation stations shown only if they averaged more than 30 MW.

VIC1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW - 5192.82 417.32 500.00 - - 204.46
% Dispatch - 82.24 6.61 7.92 - - 3.24
% Fuel Capacity - 80.07 19.31 21.15 - - 21.15

Generation stations shown only if they averaged more than 30 MW.

CO2

CO2 emissions in tonnes per hour, as % of total, as annualised total (million tonnes), and as emission intensity (tonnes per MWhour) by region and by fuel type.

CO2 emissions by REGIONID
NSW QLD SA TAS VIC NEM
T/hr 7384.00 6235.80 1146.40 3.4 7469.60 22239.20
% 33.20 28.00 5.20 0.0 33.60 100.00
annual - MT 64.70 54.60 10.00 0.0 65.40 194.80
T/MWhour 0.94 0.89 0.67 0.0 1.18 0.94

CO2 emissions by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
T/hr 12480.40 7736.70 - 2016.90 5.1 - -
% 56.10 34.80 - 9.10 - - -
annual - MT 109.30 67.80 - 17.70 - - -
T/MWhour 0.99 1.36 - 0.62 0.14 - -

NEM

NSW1

QLD1

SA1

TAS1

VIC1

REGIONAL DEMAND

Demand by REGIONID - megawatts
NSW QLD SA TAS VIC NEM
MW 8181.5 6425.9 1921.5 1095.1 5722.7 23346.6
% 35.0 27.5 8.2 4.7 24.5 100.0

NSW1

QLD1

SA1

TAS1

VIC1

REGIONAL REFERENCE PRICES

Volume weighted pool prices ($ per MWhour) by region and by fuel types

Regional volume-weighted prices
REGION VWP Black Coal Brown Coal Natural Gas Hydro Wind Solar Other
NSW 54.79 54.73 - 57.33 57.77 52.4 60.53 -
QLD 52.09 51.53 - 53.72 60.15 - - 45.47
SA 126.39 - 107.48 156.27 - 85.84 - -
TAS 90.85 - - 68.60 96.1 92.87 - -
VIC 83.46 - 74.31 103.65 110.3 72.31 - -

INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE

.. not yet implemented