Wholesale electricity markets continue to trend up due to supply-side generation challenges and rising coal and natural gas prices. For the month of October, Electricity …
Electricity Market Wrap (14/11/2016)
Wholesale Energy Markets Brace for Hazelwood Announcement
Uncertainty is prevailing in wholesale electricity markets across the NEM, with the future of the Hazelwood brown coal power station potentially being decided by the …
Update: AHA (NSW) Group Natural Gas Tender now closed
In September, Leading Edge Energy launched a Natural Gas Group Tender campaign for AHA (NSW) members. Thank you to all those members that have expressed …
Electricity Rates in Review – September 2016
NSW (Increase) Wholesale futures prices in NSW trended up significantly in the month of September with an average increase of over 10%. This was in …
SA Electricity Outage – What happened?
The statewide power outage in South Australia on the afternoon of 28th September created a media frenzy with vested interests from all sides quick to …
South Australia’s enormous July power price spike sounds national electricity alarm: Grattan Institute
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-25/sa’s-power-price-spike-sounds-national-electricity-alarm/7875970 …
Closing Victoria’s Hazelwood power station is no threat to electricity supply… but certainly a threat to stable wholesale electricity prices
The threat of Hazelwood being shut down as early as April next year may not be a threat to Australia’s electricity supply…. but it’s certainly …
A kingdom of gold
A featherbed too big The performance of electricity networks under stress due to temporary reductions in capacity or peaks in demand is a public issue …
Sunshine on a rainy day
Since the introduction of the first solar buyback schemes in Australia almost ten years ago, early adopters of solar power generation have seen a fair …
