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.

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(2009-07-03)

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Article in: [Energy User][Water Week][Electricity Week][EWN Publishing][Electricity QLD][Energy Daily]
Article Tags: [ Energy - General ][ Consumer Issues ][ Water(Utilities) ][ Energy - Electricity ][ NEM Electricity Analysis ]


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