New South Wales
Live New South Wales electricity market: spot price, load and generation.
· rendered 10:17 UTC. Numbers hold their last published value; nothing is interpolated.
Now
5-min real-time price
98.94M AUD/MWh
≈ 69.48D USD/MWh ECB rate 2026-10-23
RT5 · AUD/MWh ·
Demand
7973M MW
Last 24 hours
Min 95.52, max 136.51, latest 98.94 AUD/MWh. Line breaks mark gaps longer than two reporting intervals.
Baseline building: 0 of 28 days.
Min 6336, max 8382, latest 7973 MW. Line breaks mark gaps longer than two reporting intervals.
Baseline building: 0 of 28 days.
Generation mix
This market publishes no generation mix.
Other markets
5-min real-time price in other markets
- NEM Queensland: 90.94M AUD/MWh
- NEM Victoria: 98.48M AUD/MWh
- NEM South Australia: 96.44M AUD/MWh
- NEM Tasmania: 100.14M AUD/MWh
Demand in other markets
- Great Britain: 29582M MW
- Denmark: 5976D MW
- NEM Queensland: 6801M MW
- NEM Victoria: 5439M MW
- NEM South Australia: 1392M MW
- NEM Tasmania: 1093M MW
- Taiwan: 29240M MW
- ERCOT (Texas): 46732M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- PJM Interconnection: 76402M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- MISO: 63747M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- ISO New England: 10279M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- Southwest Power Pool (SPP): 27803M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
Sources
Source
AEMO (AU) · licence
Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB
Latest batch fetched ·
Fuel mix not collected until AEMO's own Registration and Exemption List is available (Cowork 2026-10-23).
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SolarCostData Data Desk (2026). NEM New South Wales electricity data, live.solarcostdata.com/markets/nsw/, accessed 2026-10-24. Source data: Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB.
Download last 24 h: data.csv · data.json (CC BY 4.0 (our figures); source data: Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB)
New South Wales is the NSW1 region of Australia’s National Electricity Market, the grid that links the eastern and south-eastern states. AEMO runs the market and publishes dispatch results every five minutes through NEMWEB. Our page shows the regional spot price and the regional demand figure. The price is stamped at the start of the five-minute interval it covers, although AEMO’s file labels it with the interval end, and NEM time is AEST, ten hours ahead of UTC, so there is no summer-time shift in the data.
The demand number is AEMO’s total demand field for the region. AEMO’s public dashboard shows a different measure, close to cleared supply, so expect small differences between the two. We do not publish a generation mix for NSW because AEMO’s own registration list is not yet part of our feed.
NSW is Australia’s most populous state and its price tends to be shaped by coal. The Eraring coal station is scheduled to run until April 2029 after an extension by its owner. Prices spike when hot or cold days lift demand while a large unit is offline, or when interstate links to Queensland and Victoria are limited. Midday prices fall as rooftop and utility solar grow.
Limitations: spot prices are the dispatch price, not what households pay, and AEMO can revise one in rare cases (for example an administered price period).
Facts
- NSW1 is the NEM region for New South Wales; AEMO operates the market and publishes five-minute DispatchIS files on NEMWEB.
- Five-minute settlement began on 1 October 2021, aligning dispatch and settlement intervals. Source: AEMC
- The market price cap for 2026-27 is A$23,200/MWh and the cumulative price threshold is A$2,225,900. Source: AEMC
- NEM market time is AEST (UTC+10); the DispatchIS SETTLEMENTDATE marks interval end, so we shift it back by one interval. Source: AEMO
- Load uses REGIONSUM.TOTALDEMAND; AEMO's dashboard uses a different field, so the two figures differ slightly.
- Origin Energy has told AEMO that Eraring will run all four units until 30 April 2029, moving the closure from 19 August 2027. Source: Origin Energy
- Prices are in Australian dollars (AUD) per MWh.
Not for trading or operational decisions. Provisional data.