Month by month black out risk and high-price opportunity: drought adds new factor to NEM supply and demand scenarios |
First 9 of 9 paragraphs shown There was the market operations scenarios in a perfect world of maxium water - then there was the additional 'drought factor' which the NEM operatar published a parallel - and very different analyis of supply and demand. Includes water constraints: What was revealed was a very different picture: -reductions in water availability to two Victorian generators; -unavailability of one power station in New South Wales for a period of one month each in summer 2009/10 and summer 2010/11 due to the unavailability of water; and - major outages of two generating units in New South Wales throughout the two year study period. ...Log in to read rest of Article or image. |