[valw]

Reminder: this sort of metric is sensational but hardly relevant. The relevant metric is how much fossil production is left, not how much low-carbon production we add. All the more so because production peaks of renewables tend to be outliers.

[stephen_g]

Our grid demand has been fairly steady (obviously it varies by season) since 2008 or so (probably due in part to some economic slowdown back then, but also energy efficiency improvements e.g. LED lighting, as well as behind the meter solar etc.) so all renewables added is displacing gas and coal in our electricity market.

Looking at OpenNEM, coal peaked in 2007 at 84.9% of all power generated (averaged per month), and in July was 63.4% (record low was October 2020 with 62.5%). Gas looks to have peaked in Jan 2014 with 13%. Recent peak was June with 10.4% and record low was February with 4.6%. Renewables are now 29% over the last month, up from around 6% in 2008. Still a long way to go!

[caf]

This was a result of both, though: the same dispatch interval also set a new record low level of coal-fired generation in the NEM (9,365MW - the previous low being 9,507MW in October 2020).