This Chart of the week examines the historical captured prices of selected technologies within NSW for the last 10 years.
Figure 1 shows the historical rolling monthly average of captured prices of various technologies within New South Wales against the monthly generation of variable renewable resources including small scale rooftop.
Prior to 2016, in the era of overcapacity of thermal generators, there was a marginal difference between captured prices of the baseload coal-fired generators and gas and hydropeaking plant, with the exception of high price events which result in extended blocks of higher prices in the rolling averages.