Monthly Operating Report
ersonal use only
January 2022
January overview.
For the month of January 2022 | |||
only | » The Customer business recorded: | » Otahuhu futures settlement wholesale price for | |
the 2nd quarter of 2022 (ASX): | |||
• Mass market electricity and gas sales of 276GWh (January | • As at 07 Feb 2022: $186/MWh | ||
2021: 261GWh) | • As at 01 Jan 2022: $185/MWh | ||
use | • Mass market netback of $105.93/MWh (January 2021: | ||
• As at 31 Dec 2021: $160/MWh | |||
$103.59/MWh) | |||
» The Wholesale business recorded: | » As at 07 Feb 2022, South Island controlled | ||
storage was 112% of mean and North Island | |||
• Contracted Wholesale electricity sales, including that sold to | |||
controlled storage was 123% of mean | |||
the Customer business, totalled 564GWh (January 2021: | • As at 07 Feb 2022, total Clutha scheme | ||
574GWh) | |||
storage (including uncontrolled storage) | |||
• Electricity and steam net revenue of $83.85/MWh (January | |||
ersonal | was 105% of mean | ||
2021: $83.37/MWh) | • Inflows into Contact's Clutha catchment | ||
• Electricity generated (or acquired) of 649GWh (January 2021: | |||
for January 2022 were 43% of mean | |||
645GWh) | (December 2021: 95% | ||
• The unit generation cost, which includes acquired generation | November 2021: 87% | ||
was $37.69/MWh (January 2021: $28.78/MWh) | October 2021: 98%) | ||
• Own generation cost in the month of $32.88/MWh | » As at 1 February 2021, Contact's contracted | ||
(January 2021: $26.96MWh) | gas volume (including contracted swaps) for the | ||
next 12 months is 15.64PJ* | |||
* As notified by suppliers, actual gas received is dependent on field delivery | |||
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Hydro storage and forward prices.
only | 100 | |||||||||
New Zealand controlled hydro storage against mean | ASX futures settlement | |||||||||
12 MONTHS | Otahuhu | |||||||||
4500 | 200 | |||||||||
$/MWh | ||||||||||
3500 | ||||||||||
4000 | ||||||||||
useGWh | 0 | |||||||||
3000 | ||||||||||
2500 | CY22 | CY23 | CY24 | CY25 | ||||||
30/06/2021 | 31/12/2021 | 31/01/2022 | ||||||||
2000 | Benmore | |||||||||
1500 | ||||||||||
1000 | 200 | |||||||||
ersonal | 150 | |||||||||
500 | $/MWh | 50 | ||||||||
0 | ||||||||||
100 | ||||||||||
Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul | Aug Sep Oct Nov | Dec Jan | 0 | |||||||
South Island Actual | North Island Actual | CY22 | CY23 | CY24 | CY25 | |||||
30/06/2021 | 31/12/2021 | 31/01/2022 | ||||||||
South Island post-market mean | National post-market mean | |||||||||
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only | Wholesale market. | |||||||||||
periods | Distribution of wholesale market price by trading periods | |||||||||||
Wholesale electricity pricing | ||||||||||||
Otahuhu | ||||||||||||
60% | ||||||||||||
300 | 40% | |||||||||||
use$/MWh | 250 | tradingof periodstradingof% | 20% | |||||||||
0% | ||||||||||||
200 | <$35 | $36-$60 | $61-$85 | $86-$110 | $111-$135 | $136-$160 | >$160 | |||||
150 | Jan-22 | Jan-21 | Dec-21 | |||||||||
Benmore | ||||||||||||
100 | 60% | |||||||||||
ersonal | 50 | 40% | ||||||||||
20% | ||||||||||||
0 | % | |||||||||||
0% | ||||||||||||
Jul Aug Sept Oct | Nov Dec | Jan Feb Mar | Apr May Jun | |||||||||
<$35 | $36-$60 | $61-$85 | $86-$110 | $111-$135 | $136-$160 | >$160 | ||||||
FY21 BEN | FY22 BEN | FY21 OTA | FY22 OTA | Jan-22 | Jan-21 | Dec-21 | ||||||
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ersonal use only
Electricity demand.
Information for January not yet available.
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