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Market Rules and the Numbers

The rules are the rules, but prevailing numbers can move around driven by changes in perceptions. What an ending to the financial year. This article reflects on the rules learnt and then makes observations of the last two quarters in the context of the changing market conditions.

5 min read Jul 6, 2023

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May-23 Energy Market Report

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

May-23 was a story of increases across the energy market. Electricity spot prices were the highest year-to-date for all mainland NEM regions, forward electricity contract prices rallied across the NEM, and ancillary services costs for May were the highest year-to-date.

24 min read Jun 20, 2023

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Apr-23 Energy Market Report

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

Despite mild weather, low demand and high solar generation during April, the wholesale electricity spot market continued to deliver strong prices in Qld and NSW, while Vic and SA were around the median of the last seven years, and Tas lower.

21 min read May 16, 2023

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Mar-23 Energy Market Report

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

March continued where February left off, with a softening forward electricity prices, gas prices, and LGC prices. But that all turned around in the last week of March with electricity, gas and LGC prices rallying strongly.

25 min read Apr 17, 2023

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Feb-23 Energy Market Report

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

February was a relatively quiet and uneventful month in the energy market despite prices being tested by seasonably high demand in Vic and SA. Wholesale electricity and gas spot prices remained subdued, while the electricity forward market and the LGC market continued to soften.

22 min read Mar 30, 2023

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Jan-23 Energy Market Report

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

2023 is well underway and the 2022 Energy Crisis now seems to be a thing of the past. Electricity spot prices, forward prices, gas prices, and LGCs all continue to soften as the year gets off to a promising start.

22 min read Mar 6, 2023

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Annual Market Report Part 3 - Generation and Demand

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

This report is the third and final part of our Annual Report series, and focusses on generation, demand and reserve levels. There are 7 components of the report providing a range of insights and conclusions.

16 min read Feb 8, 2023

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Annual Market Report Part 2 - Financial

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

This second part of our Annual Market Report focuses on the Financial aspects of the market by addressing the performance of financial swap and cap derivatives, before assessing environmental certificates.

14 min read Feb 2, 2023

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Annual Market Report Part 1 - Spot Prices

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

This is the first part of our Annual Market Report and focuses on spot prices where not surprisingly, 2022 set records across all regions of the NEM.

16 min read Jan 23, 2023

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Nov-22 Energy Market Report

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

November was another busy month in the energy markets. Energy news and announcements were very prevalent in the media, many of which were covered in our busy November edition of Energy Market Bytes with some of the highlights included in the Market Report below.

26 min read Dec 9, 2022

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Oct-22 Energy Market Report

EnergyByte, Carl Daley

Structural market changes were announced by Federal and State Governments. More prominent Government ownership and the acceleration of expanded transmission all featured. Forward market prices were extremely volatile during the month but appear to have peaked.

24 min read Nov 11, 2022

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Market finally listening ... and prices slump

Carl Daley

On the 24 October we wrote an article about the market poking the bear and acting as if it is tone deaf to Government actions. Well, it appears the market had a Cochlear ear implant, and is now listening.

1 min read Nov 10, 2022