Here’s a first look at (generating lots of questions about) Hamilton Solar Farm, and particularly the Availability forecast, back on Wednesday 12th February 2025.
Read MoreA second article for Thursday 20th February 2025 looking at a noticeable jump in ‘Market Demand’ in NSW
A short (and perhaps cryptic, or perhaps useful) initial look at some (what might appear to some) ‘rogue’ price forecasts in P5 predispatch for the NSW region on Thursday 20th February 2025.
Two weeks after the AER published its updated Compliance Bulletin (and Compliance Checklist) for Semi-Scheduled units, we’ve finally found time to note about it.
Prompted by a question by a client in a training session for a new ez2view user, guest author Allan O’Neil has written 2,940 words to explain the price outcome in one particular dispatch interval for one particular region (19:05 on Tuesday 11th February 2025 in South Australia). Strap in, because it’s a good illustration of why the simple ‘merit order’ bid stacking model is sometimes (often!) way too simplistic!
About 150 minutes after the earlier (apparent) drop in NSW ‘Market Demand’ there’s a second drop that’s not quite so big, but still sizeable.
Anita, Lachlan, and Gilles from ERM Energetics share their thoughts on how financial electricity derivatives must evolve as the energy transition speeds up.
Whilst looking at system frequency, there was an apparent trip of the Callide B2 unit in the early hours of Wednesday morning 19th February 2025.
That alert in ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view (looking at large change in ‘Market Demand’ in NSW) has triggered again at 11:51 (NEM time) on Wednesday 19th February 2025.
Following on from a similar review this time last year, Dan provides an updated look at the economics and performances within the NEM’s big battery fleet, making use of our recently released GSD2024.
A relatively large jump in ‘Market Demand’ in the NSW region from 16:05 to 16:10 on Tuesday 18th February 2025 caught our attention.
After reviewing the latest version of our Generator Statistical Digest (GSD), David Leitch shares his top insights about VRE curtailment across the NEM in 2024.
With the news that Codrington Wind Farm (one of the first in the NEM) is to be closed, we take a quick look at 24 years of history.
Given the situation that unfolded on Sunday 16th February 2025, we take a look at curtailment of Large Solar production (not quite a record).
Seeking indications of possible performance at solar sites announced in the CIS tender of 2024, we inspect statistics of nearby solar farms using the GSD2024.
Second article pertaining to the remarkably low level of ‘Market Demand’ in NSW on Sunday 16th February 2025.
The bottom has dropped out of the ‘record minimum demand’ point for NSW on Sunday 16th February 2025.
A quick note with snapshot taken at ~15:11 on Thursday 13th February 2025 looking back at the past 6 hours of NEM Mainland Frequency.
If I had time, we’d explore three separate questions we have about what happened in South Australia on Wednesday 12th February 2025. In this article we take a first pass at one of those questions … what was the state of play in terms of contributions to meeting the very high level of demand?
A follow-on article focused on the 19:00 dispatch interval on Wednesday 12th February 2025 in South Australia (a very tight period for supply-demand balance).