"Power hits dangerous low"
29th January 2009
Chris Zappone - from "Business Day" at The Age - wrote several articles during the day on 29th January 2009, as electricity demand steadily grew across the NEM as a result of the heatwave afflicting south-eastern Australia. Here's a link to one of them:
Chris was running NEM-Watch over the period, and using NEM-Watch to keep an eye on the situation, as it unfolded.
Here's also a local copy of the article (PDF) we saved at the time.
Later that evening we put together a summary of what happened on the day (with screenshots from NEM-WatchTM) in an article at WattClarity ® - our electricity market blog:
Massive Demand, Huge Prices, Load Shedding and the Cumulative Price Threshold (and lessons learnt?)
http://wattclarity.com.au/Public/Article.aspx?aid=66