WEEK COMMENCING 2015-12-27

week 52 of 2015

We report (graphically) some aspects of the National Electricity Market (NEM) for the week 2015-12-27 to 2016-01-03.

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 5645.3 6389.6 1213.8 1123.5 5881.4 20253.6
% 27.9 31.5 6.0 5.5 29.0 100.0

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 10352.0 5621.7 1512.4 1805.8 12.1 43.4 906.2
% Dispatch 51.1 27.8 7.5 8.9 0.1 0.2 4.5
% Fuel Capacity 53.1 71.8 17.8 16.2 0.9 27.8 27.0

NSW1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 4887.59 - 221.56 372.96 0.2 43.38 119.59
% Dispatch 86.58 - 3.92 6.61 - 0.77 2.12
% Fuel Capacity 47.73 - 8.81 18.57 0.14 27.85 18.79

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 5464.45 - 76.14 839.03 10.00 - -
% Dispatch 85.52 - 1.19 13.13 0.16 - -
% Fuel Capacity 67.06 - 11.88 27.19 0.99 - -

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 - 253.54 - 486.51 1.93 - 471.87
% Dispatch - 20.89 - 40.08 0.16 - 38.87
% Fuel Capacity - 32.93 - 18.23 1.04 - 33.06

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 - - 1017.80 25.19 - - 80.47
% Dispatch - - 90.60 2.24 - - 7.16
% Fuel Capacity - - 45.14 6.79 - - 26.13

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 - 5368.19 196.92 82.06 - - 234.23
% Dispatch - 91.27 3.35 1.40 - - 3.98
% Fuel Capacity - 82.78 9.11 3.47 - - 24.23

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 5164.70 5717.90 623.00 16.00 7469.30 18991.00
% 27.20 30.10 3.30 0.10 39.30 100.00
annual - MT 45.20 50.10 5.50 0.10 65.40 166.40
T/MWhour 0.91 0.89 0.51 0.01 1.27 0.94

CO2 emissions by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
T/hr 10210.90 7708.30 - 1069.40 2.3 - -
% 53.80 40.60 - 5.60 - - -
annual - MT 89.40 67.50 - 9.40 - - -
T/MWhour 0.99 1.37 - 0.59 0.19 - -

NEM

NSW1

QLD1

SA1

TAS1

VIC1

REGIONAL DEMAND

Demand by REGIONID - megawatts
NSW QLD SA TAS VIC NEM
MW 6782.3 5835.5 1377.5 1051.3 4752.1 19798.8
% 34.3 29.5 7.0 5.3 24.0 100.0

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 45.85 46.98 - 48.27 51.8 43.52 49.35 -
QLD 42.73 42.52 - 45.27 43.85 - - 31.25
SA 83.56 - 66.89 135.96 - 42.14 - -
TAS 104.47 - - 102.15 104.65 102.26 - -
VIC 41.93 - 36.76 119.82 61.96 35.58 - -

INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE

.. not yet implemented