A winter peaking SWIS: how will you respond? lie; cry; deny
Peak electricity demand in Western Australia’s Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) has historically coincided the very hot weather conditions experienced during the summer months. Indeed, for the purpose of allocating the cost of the $650 million Reserve Capacity Mechanism (RCM) to customers [1], the WEM Rules assume that peak demand events will always occur in the 'Hot Season', between 1 December and 31 March. But times are changing.... On Monday 31 July 2017, we observed a n