New South Wales electricity price today
NEM New South Wales used today
111,350MWhD
Metered to · ticking at the last metered rate
5-min real-time price 102.39M AUD/MWh · RT5
Now
5-min real-time price
102.39M AUD/MWh
RT5 ·
Demand
6547M MW
Last 24 hours
Min 38.09, max 118.50, latest 102.39 AUD/MWh. Line breaks mark gaps longer than two reporting intervals.
Baseline building: 1 of 28 days.
Min 5041, max 9199, latest 6547 MW. Line breaks mark gaps longer than two reporting intervals.
Baseline building: 1 of 28 days.
Generation mix
This market publishes no generation mix.
About this market
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 We do not publish a generation mix for NSW because AEMO’s own registration list is not yet part of our feed.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).
Source
Source
AEMO (AU) · licence · Source: Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), NEMWEB · fetched ·
Fuel mix not collected until AEMO's own Registration and Exemption List is available (Cowork 2026-10-23).
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.
Other markets
5-min real-time price in other markets
- NEM Queensland: 91.28M AUD/MWh
- NEM Victoria: 94.32M AUD/MWh
- NEM South Australia: 103.80M AUD/MWh
- NEM Tasmania: 97.52M AUD/MWh
Demand in other markets
- Great Britain: 25140M MW
- Denmark: 5954D MW
- NEM Queensland: 5836M MW
- NEM Victoria: 4530M MW
- NEM South Australia: 1245M MW
- NEM Tasmania: 878M MW
- Taiwan: 26238M MW
- ERCOT (Texas): 44674M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- PJM Interconnection: 78578M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- MISO: 61910M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- ISO New England: 11022M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
- Southwest Power Pool (SPP): 26473M MWhourly · EIA-930 preliminary · delayed
Cite this
SolarCostData Data Desk (2026). NEM New South Wales electricity data, solarcostdata.com/markets/nsw/, accessed 2026-10-25. 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)
Not for trading or operational decisions. Provisional data.