lee wrote on Jun 25^th, 2018 at 10:09pm:


It's still there Lee, in this thread, two pages back, along with our very recent discussion of it.

"The biggest declines, however, come in area 4, where solar PV plays a major role. This has knocked up to 3GW off demand in the middle of the day."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/graph-of-the-day-how-solar-pv-slashed-electricity-de...



And your graph shows a peak of about 3GW, which is the saving, not the peak solar output.

also -

"That accounts for around 1GW of reduction on average. In the early morning, from about 2am (area 2) there have been demand reductions of nearly 1.5GW due to the phasing-out and/or improved efficiency of resistive-electric ‘‘off-peak water heaters’’. Remember, these were introduced to keep the coal-fired generators busy during the night."

it is not solar at 2am either.