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About Aneroid Energy
These pages are designed to make information about energy production
within the Australian electricity grid readily accessible.
The energy markets and systems in south eastern Australia are operated
by the Australian Energy Market Operator
(AEMO) and the data on this site is sourced from their
publicly available data sets .
Synoptic Analysis source: BoM
About the Australian Electricity Grid
The electricity grid managed by the AEMO
covers New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania and is
the world's largest interconnected
power system .
The interface between generators (producers of energy) and consumers (industrial users, businesses
and homes) is known as the National Electricity Market
(NEM). It is the system though which the supply of energy to local distributors is managed, along with the price of that energy.
Most of Australia's electricity needs are fulfilled by
power stations which burn fossil fuels like coal and
natural gas to drive steam turbines.
A large part is also played by hydroelectric power stations
while wind power contributes in line with meteorological
conditions.
There are also many smaller generators which use solar
technology, biomass, bagasse etc. to create electricity.
A relative newcomer is the installation, en masse, of domestic rooftop solar
photovoltaics (PV). AEMO provides daily files summarising the performance of rooftop solar generation by region.