February, 2016

We report (graphically) some aspects of the National Electricity Market (NEM) for February, 2016 from
2016-02-01 to 2016-02-22.

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 7779.9 6833.8 1294.0 1095.7 5987.5 22990.9
% 33.8 29.7 5.6 4.8 26.0 100.0

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 12460.9 5851.9 1497.5 2133.0 44.0 51.0 952.6
% Dispatch 54.2 25.5 6.5 9.3 0.2 0.2 4.1
% Fuel Capacity 63.9 74.7 17.6 19.2 3.1 32.7 28.4

NSW1

Dispatch by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
MW 7006.42 - 369.65 197.51 0.2 50.96 155.17
% Dispatch 90.06 - 4.75 2.54 - 0.66 1.99
% Fuel Capacity 68.42 - 14.70 9.84 0.14 32.72 24.38

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 5454.45 - 34.82 1300.65 43.84 - -
% Dispatch 79.82 - 0.51 19.03 0.64 - -
% Fuel Capacity 66.93 - 5.43 42.15 4.33 - -

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 - 493.88 - 323.81 0.01 - 476.30
% Dispatch - 38.17 - 25.02 - - 36.81
% Fuel Capacity - 64.14 - 12.14 - - 33.37

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 - - 739.63 266.65 - - 89.43
% Dispatch - - 67.50 24.34 - - 8.16
% Fuel Capacity - - 32.80 71.87 - - 29.04

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 - 5358.01 353.41 44.38 - - 231.73
% Dispatch - 89.49 5.90 0.74 - - 3.87
% Fuel Capacity - 82.62 16.35 1.88 - - 23.97

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 7272.90 6055.10 773.7 126.00 7420.80 21648.60
% 33.60 28.00 3.6 0.60 34.30 100.00
annual - MT 63.70 53.00 6.8 1.10 65.00 189.60
T/MWhour 0.93 0.89 0.6 0.12 1.24 0.94

CO2 emissions by fuel type
Black Coal Brown Coal Hydro Natural Gas Other Solar Wind
T/hr 12380.30 7952.40 - 1283.3 32.60 - -
% 57.20 36.70 - 5.9 0.20 - -
annual - MT 108.50 69.70 - 11.2 0.30 - -
T/MWhour 0.99 1.36 - 0.6 0.74 - -

NEM

NSW1

QLD1

SA1

TAS1

VIC1

REGIONAL DEMAND

Demand by REGIONID - megawatts
NSW QLD SA TAS VIC NEM
MW 8207.1 6778.2 1377.3 1028.5 5112.0 22503.2
% 36.5 30.1 6.1 4.6 22.7 100.0

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 36.85 36.88 - 41.09 39.64 34.79 39.58 -
QLD 154.39 138.2 - 200.32 305.47 - - 454.39
SA 38.29 - 36.69 41.28 - 30.91 - -
TAS 148.17 - - 148.54 147.22 159.19 - -
VIC 33.17 - 32.04 48.81 42.05 30.4 - -

INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE

.. not yet implemented