NEM electricity spot price by region

Five-minute settlement averaged to monthly, by NEM region. Shows interconnection effects and renewable curtailment.

Series in this chart

  • Spot price/v1/energy/nem-spot

Code that produces this

cURL
curl https://api.ausdata.io/v1/energy/nem-spot \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Methodology

Volume-weighted average price per region per month.

Takeaways

  • SA prices drop hardest during peak solar.
  • NSW had the highest monthly average through 2022.

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