Market wrap: Temperatures around Australia have started to warm up and that has led to lowered demand as people turned down their heaters, but futures prices are still trending upwards. …
August 2018 National Energy Market Wrap
Market wrap: Electricity futures prices trended up during the month of August due to a combination of factors including uncertainty in the political sphere, the dumping of the National Energy …
Coal failures and drought cause wholesale electricity rates to spike
Wholesale electricity prices on the National Energy Market have bucked a two-month downward trend and prices have pushed back upwards substantially in all states under review. Victoria and Queensland experienced …
Wholesale rates spike after coal generators fail
Electricity rates – wholesale rates were trending downward to reach a low point in early June, mainly due to the increasing pace of renewable energy projects adding more supply into …
April electricity rates update
Electricity rates – Futures prices dropped in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria from 1 April through to May 17. The biggest drop was experienced in New South …
Electricity rates update: December 2017
Electricity rates: Futures prices dropped in all states under review from 1 December 2017 to 10 January 2018. The biggest drops were experienced in Queensland and Victoria with 2.5% and …
Electricity rates update: July 2017
Since our last wholesale electricity rates update on July 5, prices have gone up in New South Wales and Victoria by 4.3% and 2.5% respectively. Prices have dropped slightly in …