ONS revises load growth forecast, estimated at 2.2% in June

Energy storage in the North and Southeast submarkets is expected to reach record levels
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Reservoirs remain full across the country. Photo: Pixabay

Electricity load growth will be 702 MWmed lower in June than predicted at the beginning of the month. According to the ONS (National System Operator), the load of the National Interconnected System is expected to reach, at the end of the month, 69,971 MWmed, which represents an increase of 2.2% compared to the same period a year earlier. However, initially the Operator estimated a growth of 3.3% (60,763 MWmed).

The regions with prospects for expansion are the North, with 14.3% (7,112 MWmed), the Northeast, 6.9% (11,729 MWmed), and the Southeast/Central-West, 0.2% (39,031 MWmed). The South submarket continues with a tendency to reduce load: – 1.5% (12,099 MWmed). The data presented compares estimates for month six of 2023, compared to the same period last year.

The data are from the latest bulletin of the Monthly Operations Program (PMO), for the operating week between June 24th and 30th

Also according to the ONS, energy storage in the North and Southeast submarkets is expected to reach record levels, reaching 99.6% and 86.2%, respectively. All subsystems will be above 80%, with 88% in the South and 84% in the Northeast.

The prospects for Affluent Natural Energy (ENA) for the end of the current month are compatible with what is expected for the typically dry period, but we are already aware that this season we will have the typical effects of the El Niño phenomenon, with forecast rainfall in greater volume. high in the South region, above average temperatures in the Center-South and reduced precipitation in the North and Northeast.

Therefore, the Southeast/Central-West, a region that concentrates 70% of the reservoirs relevant to the SIN, maintained the prospect of reaching the highest percentage among all subsystems on the last day of June: 94% of the Long Term Average (MLT). Next, the North region presents the possibility of reaching ENA of 76% from MLT, the South records 63% from MLT and, finally, the Northeast with 51% from MLT.

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Wagner Freire
Wagner Freire is a journalist graduated from FMU. He worked as a reporter for Jornal da Energia, Canal Energia and Agência Estado. He has covered the electricity sector since 2011. He has experience in covering events, such as energy auctions, conventions, lectures, fairs, congresses and seminars.

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