Grid recap · Thursday 5 November 2026 (UTC day)

What happened on 5 November

Prices fell below zero in 5 markets on 5 November: South Australia for 9 h 55 minD, Queensland for 8 h 55 minD, Victoria for 6 h 45 minD, New South Wales for 3 h 35 minD and Tasmania for 20 minD. The longest unbroken run was in Victoria, 4 h 20 minD from 11:05–15:25 AEDT; the lowest price there during the day was −A$53.65D/MWh. The run sat inside local daytime hours, when rooftop and utility solar in the NEM is producing. This site does not publish a generation mix for the NEM regions, so the solar and wind share in those intervals is not shown. Denmark DK2 spiked to DKK 2,741/MWhD (about 412D USD/MWh) in the hour from 16:00 CET, above our fixed threshold of 300 USD/MWh.

Of the grids where we meter the generation mix, Denmark ran on the highest renewable share, 36.8D % over the day, with wind at 17.6D % and solar at 19.1D %. Great Britain followed at 36.6D % renewable with wind 25.6D % (transmission-metered; solar on local networks is not in this data). Taiwan followed at 11.4D % renewable with wind 2.9D % and solar 7.1D %. The 7D markets with complete demand data used 2,134,626D MWh between them, led by Great Britain with 38.2D %.

Time below zero across all markets added up to 29 h 30 minD, more than the 26 h 25 minD on 4 November. The biggest day-on-day moves in electricity used were Queensland at +4.8D % and Victoria at −8.6D %. Denmark's renewable share rose by 3.8D points, from 33.0D %. The cheapest hour anywhere cost about −132D USD/MWh, against −110D on 4 November.

How to read this. The 5 November recap covers 15D markets (7D with a full day of demand) and was frozen at 00:30 UTC on 6 November; later operator revisions are not applied. A D badge marks a number we calculated from the operators' metered data, an M badge one published as is. Durations add up priced intervals below zero, clock times are each market's local time, and shares are energy-weighted over the day. Definitions and limits are in the methodology.