October, 2015

We report (graphically) some aspects of the National Electricity Market (NEM) for October, 2015 from
2015-10-01 to 2015-11-01.

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

Data is sourced from

DISPATCH

Dispatch coloured by fuel type for each region (including 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 6937 6244.2 1221.2 749.7 5838.4 20990.5
% 33 29.7 5.8 3.6 27.8 100.0

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 11249.5 5437.4 1257.0 1915.9 43.6 40.8 1046.2
% Dispatch 53.6 25.9 6.0 9.1 0.2 0.2 5.0
% Fuel Capacity 57.7 69.4 14.8 17.2 3.1 26.2 31.2

NSW1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 6127.91 - 262.75 302.54 0.09 40.83 202.87
% Dispatch 88.34 - 3.79 4.36 - 0.59 2.92
% Fuel Capacity 59.84 - 10.45 15.07 0.07 26.21 31.88

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 5121.60 - 18.83 1060.42 43.39 - -
% Dispatch 82.02 - 0.30 16.98 0.69 - -
% Fuel Capacity 62.85 - 2.94 34.36 4.28 - -

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 - 256.72 - 499.19 0.10 - 465.23
% Dispatch - 21.02 - 40.88 0.01 - 38.10
% Fuel Capacity - 33.34 - 18.71 0.05 - 32.59

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 - - 649.77 0.55 - - 99.37
% Dispatch - - 86.67 0.07 - - 13.25
% Fuel Capacity - - 28.81 0.15 - - 32.26

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 - 5180.66 325.70 53.24 - - 278.75
% Dispatch - 88.73 5.58 0.91 - - 4.77
% Fuel Capacity - 79.89 15.07 2.25 - - 28.84

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 6432.00 5571.20 622.80 0.4 7260.30 19886.60
% 32.30 28.00 3.10 0.0 36.50 100.00
annual - MT 56.30 48.80 5.50 0.0 63.60 174.20
T/MWhour 0.93 0.89 0.51 0.0 1.24 0.95

CO2 emissions by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
T/hr 11188.90 7517.90 - 1179.30 0.4 - -
% 56.30 37.80 - 5.90 - - -
annual - MT 98.00 65.90 - 10.30 - - -
T/MWhour 0.99 1.38 - 0.62 0.01 - -

NEM

NSW1

QLD1

SA1

TAS1

VIC1

REGIONAL DEMAND

Demand by REGIONID - megawatts
NSW QLD SA TAS VIC NEM
MW 7442.0 5793.2 1287.9 1115.3 4880.3 20518.6
% 36.3 28.2 6.3 5.4 23.8 100.0

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 37.60 37.84 - 38.90 39.18 36.32 39.97 -
QLD 37.21 36.94 - 37.52 39.68 - - 35.57
SA 42.98 - 41.5 46.87 - 33.46 - -
TAS 59.32 - - 147.19 59.68 57.48 - -
VIC 37.17 - 35.73 46.33 43.37 32.2 - -

INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE

.. not yet implemented