NEM power price trends

This report provides captured power price trends for the Queensland energy market (neutral case in line with AEMO’s ISP Progressive Change scenario) from 2022 up to 2041 using outputs from Cornwall Insight Australia’s latest NEM Benchmark Power Curve (BPC), published on 18 December 2022. With additional commentary on the key drivers for the quarterly update.

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The BPC is based on comprehensive market and asset-level power price modelling that delivers long-term power price forecasts, informed by industry-leading regulatory, market and policy expertise and supplemented with direct access to trusted practitioners. Our Wholesale energy market price curve forecast has a 30-minute dispatch granularity for a 30-year outlook.

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