Q1 2023 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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11 January 2023 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Millmerran Bushfires: Bushfires are returning as a threat and after three years of La Nina conditions, the fuel is plentiful. The first potential threat is the bushfire near Millmerran with the transmission line near the path of the fires.
  • QCLNG Outage: QCLNG outage has been extended to 21 January 2023 and upstream supply has been constrained.
  • East coast GPG: Across the east coast, we investigate gas generator behaviour (2022 showing peaks and troughs), Iona gas storage injection and storage levels (historically high) and upcoming Longford outages.

 

24 January 2023 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • ACCC Guidelines: we look at the Penalty, the Order and the ACCC Guidelines Examples in detail and how each interact with a summary of the four key messages.
  • Walloons Expression of Interest: understanding the key terms, complication and where value has allocated and released.
  • Finally, we take a look at how the interpretation of the Guidelines and the EOI might shape the ongoing consultation around the Reasonable Pricing Provisions.

 

7 February 2023 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • ACCC Gas Inquiry Report: The January 2023 report has incorporated a Forecast for Cal-2022 for LNG Net Taker / Net Supplier which appears to misalign with actual market outcomes.
  • The Role of LNG Exports Gas Supply: Following the assessment of the LNG Export Net Supplier calculations, we look at the role of the Southern winter bias and its equivalency to Iona Gas Storage Facility.
  • Unusual Queensland Forecast Demand: Friday 3 February had very high expectation for Queensland demand outcomes, but it appears to have included an unusual shape. Potentially a hazard of forecasting grid demand, rather than underlying demand.

 

21 February 2023 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Bushfires: The recent bushfires in the Surat region affected the pipeline routes for APLNG and QCLNG and impacted the gas production and LNG exports for a few days. With excess ground fuel from years of rain, bushfires in Australia remain a dangerous threat to life and potentially infrastructure.
  • Proposed ADGSM Consultation: Another heavy review of the policy including timelines, Allowable Volumes calculations and the potential implications associated with currently undefined words.  We delve into the Protected Long Term Contracts and the implications on sovereign risk and rising moral hazard.  Government policy has the difficult task of threading the path of managing short term conditions without increasing the long term threats.

 

6 March 2023 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • QCLNG Forced Outages: The QCLNG LNG Facility has seen six major disruptions to LNG production since October, what are the telltale signs of the predictability of the outages? Given the sharp shift on the consumption side, look into the impact on Qld gas production, Qld Gas generation, QSN pipeline exports, Iona and Longford.
  • Yallourn Outages: Energy Australia’s Yallourn – recent outages and their potential impact on the forward market.

 

16 March 2023 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Callide C Outage Revision – Analysis of the Callide C outage delay and its implication on the Callide C’s total offline rate since 2001.  Further investigation into the movements of availability for each MTPASA version and the trends that can be extracted.
  • Time to change Peak?  The traditional Peak time period (5-day 7am to 10pm) can no longer be considered a relevant financial derivative as the product has moved further away from fundamental wholesale market exposures. Investigation into an alternative time period that provides increased relevance for the current and future markets.

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Q4 2022 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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19 October 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Analysis of three interrelated issues on the domestic energy supply demand balance.
    • QCLNG LNG outage.
    • Following AEMO’s release of the Gas Supply and System Adequacy Risks report, analysis of  the historical behaviour of Longford and the potential impact on the gas supply demand balance for Longford and the Queensland gas flows.
    • Coal generator outages continue to create issues with the extension of the Loy Yang A2, Kogan Creek and even potential interruptions to the Callide C4 return.

16 November 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Considerations for political intervention
  • Hypothetical scenario: Gas Market Price Caps of $10/GJ

2 December 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Chicken or Egg: Did gas or electricity spike first?
  • Looking back Reviewing GSOO 2013 to 2015.

12 December 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Review of the Gas Market Legislation
  • Understanding the energy market driver.

23 December 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Gas and Coal Price Caps are active
  • Forward Market Response

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Q3 2022 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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6 July 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Queensland electricity markets Cumulative Price Threshold;  current projections using PreDispatch, and assessment of the current demand and supply conditions.
  • As the New South Wales flood event continues, look at the locations of the rain with regards to the major coal suppliers to the NSW Black Coal assets.
  •  Victoria Gas Market Update: check back in with Iona Gas Storage Facility and the Longford Gas Plant.

8 July 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • This supplementary Edge – Energy Market Update focuses on the Hunter Valley Flooding Event.
  • Effect of the closure of the train network from the Hunter Valley to the Newcastle Port on access to coal mines, and the shutting down of the AGL Bayswater and Liddell power stations.
  • The implications of the flooding on the export coal markets.

18 July 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Hunter train line has been restored after record July rainfalls.
  • The hunter coal mines support more than just export coal sales with potentially implications on Eraring and Vales Point
  • Investigation into the bidding reasons for patterns and monitor dispatch by NSW Coal assets.
  • Through access to satellite imagery, we can assess the change in the coal stockpiles at the NSW Coal Generators including quantity of Vales Point generation met by coal stockpiles over the past 12 months.
  • Look at the demand forecast, Iona Gas Storage Levels and the deliverability of Queensland gas into Victoria as a cold snap hits South East Australia.

15 August 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Analysis of the Day Ahead Auction  – Could Queensland (LNG exporters) send more gas to Sydney or Melbourne?
  • The analysis of Iona Gas Storage also shows the asset’s ability to “buy low, sell high” but also shows the complexity of the energy market which is coping with administered price caps and market suspension across both gas and electricity.

24 August 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • The broad question: Could more Queensland gas been delivered to the Southern Gas Market? has been sharpened to assess multiple specific questions including some fundamental framing questions.
  • International market prices continue to rise resulting in record Chill Spread. We look at some of the domestic volumetric signals for any danger.
  • Solar beats coal! First time? No… it has happened multiple times. This just means we are further down the path than we thought.
  • Given the high market prices and Queensland resident, I take a look at the royalty calculations for domestic and international gas sales.

12 September 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigation into the recent fall in the Russian gas supplies into Europe.
  • How China’s drought has impacted the largest hydro power station in the world at the Three Gorges Dam.
  • Deep dive on the NSW Dark Spread and the impact of electricity hedging on a spot exposed coal generator and the impact of and on coal stockpiles.

29 September 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Assessment of the three competing forces in the new Heads of Agreement decision; Sovereign Risk, Moral Hazard and Information Asymmetry.
  • Analysis of international markets including Nordstream sabotage, British energy policy affecting monetary policy and Hurricane Ian hitting the US gulf.
  • Records Breaking! Record low fossil fuel. Record high solar and wind. Record low carbon emissions intensity.
  • Gas Storage – the impact of falling storage levels on deliverability.

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Q2 2022 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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13 April 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Gas Market Pricing Outcomes – recent nine-month in the domestic gas market in the shadow of international outcomes.
  • APLNG Revenue Assessment – update on the revenue assessment and look at the impact of spot cargoes.
  • Spot Price Distribution – with a sharp change in the electricity market outcomes over the past three weeks, we look at the distribution through a couple of lens.

9 May 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Gas Market Rreadiness for Winter: Investigation into Iona, Longford and QSN to assess the current gas market conditions and how they are different to previous years.
  • Electricity Spot Market: Q2-2022 is currently sitting at the top of the list for spot market conditions, and we show those outcomes against the past twenty years.
  • Black Coal Dispatch: Given the electricity market conditions and the lifting coal costs passing into the dark spread calculations, we have a deep dive into the dispatch and the generator behaviour (dispatch given spot price) of every black coal generator in the NEM.

24 May 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • The Electricity forward curve continues to set new record outcomes with all forward markets for FY2023 rising by $40 to $50/MWh since Monday last week.
  • The final decision for the Default Market Offer is due out tomorrow. We take a look at the implications of the no-win decision.
  • Finally, we look at the recent movement in the gas market outcomes and the causalities.

31 May 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Three out of four retail gas market on the east coast of Australia are currently under price administration, which limits the market price to $40/GJ. We look at the causes and the implications of the cap as the DWGM pre-cap price strikes $800/GJ for the 6am schedule this morning.
  • APLNG has experienced an outage and we look at the surrounding conditions including vessels time at port, gas production and analysis of flows across QSN.
  • Updates on Longford against capacity and the current situation at Iona.
  • Part 1 of the electricity market analysis with an update on the price distribution and the impact of La Nina on rooftop solar.

2 June 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Firstly, we delve into the details around the ADGSM and Heads of Agreement, investigating how can they be used and what implications will they have?
  • Secondly, we look at the alignment of the movements in the electricity markets and the domestic gas and international coal markets.
  • Next, we assess all of the asset classes in terms of the changes in daily dispatch (MW), availability (MW) and utilisation rate / capacity factor (%) in comparison between Cal-2021, Q1-2022 and Q2-2022 to help identify the change in the market outcomes which commenced in April 2022.
  • Finally, we summarise the market conditions and how the market has got to this distressed state.

17 June 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Electricity Market has been suspended. What it means? How did we get here? Is it the right decision? How long will it last?
  • QCLNG Outage has commenced and impact on the gas and electricity markets.
  • Victorian gas market had a near miss with a capped $800/GJ gas price.

23 June 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Electricity Market is exiting suspension. The case for holding the market in suspension.
  • A look at the supply and demand balance for pre-suspension, during suspension and after-suspension.
  • Finally, we look at the QCLNG winter response (good news) and the changing international gas market conditions (bad news).

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Q1 2022 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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21 January 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Focus on the gas market as it passes through the traditional synergy of a quiet domestic market with strong international market demand over the Christmas Period.
  • Update on Iona, and the uplift in gas in storage as the year-on-year LNG declines.

8 February 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Electricity demand assessment and spot price implications in light of the recent hot and humid temperature conditions across
  • Portfolio analysis of Stanwell, CS Energy, CleanCo, InterGen and the aggregated Surat GTs.
  • Investigation into the LNG Response and impacts on the domestic market.

18 February 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigation into European Gas Storage and comparison of year on year Winter behaviour.
  • Update on Russian gas flows into Europe.
  • European LNG Import response to unfolding events.
  • US Gas Storage and LNG exports update.

3 March 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Analysis of the seven days of rainfall for Mount Glorious, Alderley and Redcliffe against historical outcomes.
  • Wivenhoe and Brisbane River analysis with comparisons against 2011 flood conditions.
  • Impact on electricity networks, solar dispatch and an investigation into the alignment of changing behaviour at Tarong Power Station and rainfall at Kingaroy.
  • In NSW, investigation into the rainfall and conditions at Northern Rivers and Sydney.
  • Russia has invaded Ukraine with announcements by the oil majors and the potential credit risk exposure on record gas flows out of Russia.

16 March 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Analysis into Underlying Demand vs System Demand using the market conditions in Queensland  to look at the System Demand Peak and the other peak record demand.
  • Recent market and weather events; the disrupted gas production and assets impacted.
  • As COVID has returns to China, we investigate a hypothetical scenario.

30 March 2022 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigation into NSW forward market spikes, and some signs of bullish market signals.
  • Dive into the Queensland and Victoria forward curves, and the differences with the NSW curve.
  • The ASX forward market movements (incredible movements) against historical spot market outcomes
  • Assessment of Variation Margins ($200M) over the past few months
  • MTPASA Outage changes
  • Dark Spread – International Coal vs NSW Electricity Outcomes
  • Comparison against Qld and NSW curves.

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Q4 2021 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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5 October 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Look at the record Curtis LNG monthly export volumes over the past year.
  • Update on international prices given the current bull market.
  • South Australia – Between a Rock and a Hard Place; assessment of the misalignment between the merit order and the dispatch outcomes of the market participants.

18 October 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Deep dive into the European Gas Market, with focus on 5 key topics – Prices, Storage, Supply, Demand and Conditions.

5 November 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Continued look at the European Gas Market and the changing flow from Russia via Poland and Ukraine, deeper in to Europe, to Germany, Spain and Algeria.
  • Effect of the current changes to the gas supply in Europe on storage and price.
  • Back at home, Longford commences its maintenance season, as Iona recovers from its low position during winter, the LNG production rate looks higher and domestic gas prices break $10/GJ .

16 November 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigation into the primary drivers of the current upward price movement in the domestic gas market – Longford, Iona, Moomba and Queensland.
  • Look at the cost of raise FCAS.
  • Why we still can’t ignore Europe – the ongoing impact of Russia, the shift to storage and the impact on our local markets.

1 December 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Guest author, Bryan Lee, discusses the impact of La Niña on Snowy Hydro’s  water intake and storage levels over the years.
  • Analysis of some interesting behaviour recently seen around IONA Gas Storage, DWGM Injections and STTM Bidding.
  • Graphical look at South Australia as it entered negative demand territory in November.

17 December 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • LNG and the changes to exports ahead of Christmas.
  • Analysis of the international gas drivers in the current conditions.
  • Local market discussion; Assessment of the Australian gas storage situation, and a look at the record low NEM carbon intensity.

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Q3 2021 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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5 July 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • An update on the units affected by the Callide C and Latrobe Flooding events.
  • Wrap-up and review of the electricity market price outcomes in Q2-2021 and at end of financial year.
  • Victorian gas market update and affect of the recent volatile movements in the Queensland and NSW markets.

14 July 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Deep dive into the current Victorian gas market conditions, how we got here, and what is around the corner.
  • Analysis of the average spot prices for South Australia based on wind, natural gas and solar dispatch.

28 July 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • With a month of winter to go, analysis of the state of the market; the good and the bad news.

19 August 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Update on the state of the domestic gas market, with a focus on Iona and Longford.
  • Look at the International vs Domestic Spread, JKM forward curves in northern summer and winter, and Curtis Island LNG exports.
  • Analysis of current gas markets conditions and the key points of interest.

6 September 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Springtime in the Energy Markets – Solar vs Coal, Curtis Island capacities and Longford ramping down.
  • Look at the state of the international market, and the gap between the domestic market.

21 September 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Rise of the international JKM market price and the subsequent response from both the domestic and international markets.
  • How the transition to a low carbon electricity market drives the spot market.

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Q2 2021 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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20 April 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigating the QCLNG Double Train Outage. Following the gas in terms of Shell gas production, GLNG LNG response, GLNG upstream response, Surat Gas Generation and Queensland pipeline interconnector flows.
  • Investigation into Winter readiness in terms of QSN flow rates and record Iona gas storage levels during the pre-winter maintenance.

13 May 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigation into the Southern (NSW, Vic, SA) gas market volatility during the Iona outage including the reliance on Longford during supply side constraints and the STTM/DWGM offer behaviour response.
  • Analysis into the LNG Export vessel destination and dominance of China as the destination of choice for QCLNG and APLNG.

20 May 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Inverstigation into the sampling bias on the electricity market through the monitoring of the electricity market over lunch. This analysis highlights that the rules of thumb that have worked in the energy markets are changing rapidly.
  • Commencement of the Curtis LNG maintenance season with rolling maintenance until September 2021.

26 May 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Major Electricity Market Event: Callide C Explosion
  • Deep analysis into the event. Direct supply side impacts at Callide C and Callide B and transmission network impacts on Stanwell, Gladstone, Yarwun, NQ Solar and the Qld-NSW Interconnector. Under frequency load shedding. Immediate response by gas generators
  • Analysis of MTPASA submissions for initial return to service expectations.
  • Impact of high price / load shedding on the electrified gas production in the Surat basin.

11 June 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigation into Reliability of Black and Brown Coal.
  • Assessment of unit by unit reliability (number of outages) and length of continuous operation.
  • Impact of the exit of Hazelwood on reliability (end of life asset).
  • Update on Carbon Emissions with outages at Black coal site
  • Breaking: Yallourn flooding event.

18 June 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Curious case of Braemar A #3 MTPASA Updates.
  • Investigation into Coal’s market share over the past decade – highlighted by record market share for scheduled demand.
  • CS Energy’s assets analysis with return to service of Callide B and Kogan Creek.
  • Further update on the ongoing Yallourn flooding event with comparisons to June 2012 and Jan 2019 events.

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Q1 2021 The Edge – Energy Market Reports topics

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21 January 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Christmas Day 2020 record LNG Exports with 26.931mtpa (annualised rates) with December averaged 25.52mtpa rate.
  • International Gas price have experienced a wild ride from USD$2.00/mmbtu during April 2020 to reported spot trades at USD$39.30/mmbtu
  • European Gas Storage neared record gas in storage prior to the Northern winter 2020/21, but recently extracting gas at ~10GWh/d.
  • Iona gas storage facility has been injecting gas into storage at seasonal highs aligning with long-term lows for domestic gas generation.

5 February 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • APLNG revenue update with Origin Calculated Q4 income of $341M against reported $333M.
  • Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) Carbon Emissions have fallen to 130.0 mtpa (as at 17th January 2021), this is down 41.4mtpa since April 2016 (171.4mtpa).
  • We investigated some of the divergence in the data compared with the DISER reported figures (which include WA and NT) but there remains another systemic difference.
  • In terms of source of the change in carbon emissions, we look at the relationship between renewables and brown coal market share, and relationship with the market price.

18 February 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Review of the conditions withn Texas ERCOT in response to temperatures 20C below average (-10 to -20C).
  • Electricity prices have been USD$9000/MWh for 100 hours – making this one of the most volatile commodity price events ever (~$10B/d turnover – whereas 3rd Feb was ~$11M/d).
  • Relating back to Australia, we look at the interactions of the Cumulative Price Threshold (CPT).

1 March 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Update on the Iona Gas Storage which has lifted to 22.8PJ ahead of the 8th to 28th April maintenance.
  • Investigation into the curious relationship between Brent Oil and AUD/USD Foreign Exchange Rates including the distribution cliff-edges and the periods of strong and weak correlation.

15 March 2021 Edge Report (Subscriber Link)

  • Investigation into the gas price relationship between international gas and domestic gas market conditions.
  • Coal Transition Update: Yallourn exit brought forward to 2028 and Liddell’s full exit shown within MTPASA.
  • Comparison in terms of dispatched energy, spot revenue, dispatch weighted average prices and dispatch price ratios for Brown Coal, Natural Gas, Wind and Solar.
  • Investigation into the dark spread for New South Wales Black Coal for Q1-2021 to date and a comparison of dispatch versus other Q1’s.

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