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News: Procurement


Issue 100 of the Electricity Industry's Best Kept Secret

By Greg Sise, July 19, 2017

The majority of direct and indirect participants in the electricity market, from generators and retailers through to large consumers, aren’t aware that there is an essential piece of market intelligence available free on this very web site. And this month we publish it for the 100th time.

Electricity market, Procurement, Hedging


Competition, the Internet and the Customer

By Greg Sise, May 28, 2017

I was privileged to speak at the Energy Management Association of NZ (EMANZ) annual conference in Wellington last week and showed how market reforms over the last two decades, and now the Internet, are working together to disrupt the retail electricity market.

Procurement, Electricity market


Should I stay on spot or switch?

By Greg Sise, May 26, 2017

After a long period of low spot prices and low volatility in spot prices, hydro storage lakes are emptying out and it’s a timely reminder that the hydro situation can change very quickly. But it raises the question: when spot prices start to rise, should I stay on a spot pricing plan, or should I switch to a fixed price plan?

Electricity market, Procurement


Cost on the Line – The rising cost of delivering electricity

By Greg Sise, May 5, 2017

The charges for delivery of electricity (a.k.a. lines charges) include the cost of providing local networks and the transmission grid, and are published by local network companies, typically from 1 April for the year ahead. Now that the dust has settled from the most recent round of price adjustments, let’s take a look at what’s happening to line charges in major centres around the country.

Procurement, Electricity market


Energy Exchange Reverse Auctions

By Greg Sise, March 12, 2017

Since launching in August 2016, the Energy Exchange has run reverse auctions covering a range of site types and sizes, proving its ability to deal with the wide range of needs typical of many larger electricity consumers.

Procurement


Energy Link’s January 2017 Price Path

By Greg Sise, December 22, 2016

This week we released our latest quarterly Price Path, a long term forecast of spot prices, to our subscribers. 2016 has indeed been an uneventful year on the spot market, a function of a warm winter and lots of rain for generation and for pastures. However, the last quarter delivered up some very significant news on the gas front.

Electricity market, Procurement, Hedging


Energy Trendz Monthly - September 2016, Issue 90

By Greg Sise, September 21, 2016

In a very quiet month, the index decreased 0.1 c/kWh to 7.9 c/kWh at Haywards, on a volume of only one CFD (hedge) contract.

Electricity market, Hedging, Procurement


Energy Link’s October 2016 Price Path

By Greg Sise, September 21, 2016

Yesterday we released our latest quarterly Price Path, a long term forecast of spot prices, to our subscribers.  It was an uneventful quarter since publishing our last Price Path update in July, but this update included some significant revisions of probabilities on extreme scenarios, and a large section on the viability of the thermal fleet.By Greg Sise, 21 September 2016

Electricity market, Procurement, Hedging

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