As of September last year, the Sydney and Adelaide gas hub has operated through the Short Term Trading Market (STTM), and for a number of years the Victorian Declared Transmission System has operated through the Declared Wholesale Gas Market (Vic). The Brisbane hub will join the STTM later this year. Over $1.5B of natural gas is moved via these markets.

All of the publically available data associated with these wholesale markets are published via thousands of CSV reports on the AEMO and Bulletin Board websites. The reports are easy to access manually however any attempt to analyse the data or identify historical trends is virtually impossible without developing sophisticated software that can capture, house and report on the data. This would normally cost several hundred thousand dollars to set up and manage.

The gas data reflects all the information relevant for the operation, pricing and dispatch of these wholesale markets. Links to the data descriptions, which are published on the AEMO and Bulletin Board websites, are as follows:

Presented correctly this data will show who and how prices are set, the risks associated with uplift payments and pipeline constraints, and will show you opportunities to make better use of existing contracts and as a point of reference for underwriting future contracts.

IES offers two solutions that would afford you with the capabilities to access and analyse all publically available wholesale gas market:

  • The data portal, NEO. This application can be installed immediately and will provide you with remote access to IES's gas data repository which is housed in Sydney and backed up in Melbourne. More information here.
  • The turnkey solution: This is a builder installer that will automatically build a relational database (such as Oracle), populate the database with all historical gas data and then begin to insert new data immediately after it is published. More information here.

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