Nadali Mahmoudi from EPEC Group presents a short case study to show why network-outage modelling is essential for understanding revenue opportunities, curtailment risk and long-term investment decisions.
This late afternoon weakness in system frequency (on Sunday 30th November 2025) seems noteworthy.
On Monday 1st December 2025 (after it was flagged in some media articles) the AEMO released its 154-page '2025 Transition Plan for System Security'.
I’ve been away for the past week and am not back at work yet, but seeing the headline ‘AEMO warns of NSW blackouts if Eraring closes in 2027’ by Angela MacDonald-Smith in the AFR...
Guidelines have been developed to assist VSR Providers understand and assess the requirements for participation in central dispatch.
This article looks at the N::N_CNLT_2 transient stability constraint on Tuesday to give an example of why some NSW batteries ended up charging through Tuesday’s price spike.
A quick look at the data from our frequency logger yesterday, showing the changes in frequency during the period of market volatility.
The AEMC has published its draft 2026 Reliability Standard and Settings Review, setting out the Panel’s preliminary views on the future reliability standard and how the market should clear during minimum system load events.
Today in NSW we saw large price spreads, material network curtailment, wild swings in demand, and several other factors unfold. This article summarises some of the high-level drivers of today's events.
A quick snapshot of regional prices, where the spot price in NSW hit the MPC at 11:00am NEM time.
Nadali Mahmoudi from EPEC Group presents a short case study to show why network-outage modelling is essential for understanding revenue opportunities, curtailment risk and long-term investment decisions.
Following his presentation at All-Energy in Melbourne last week, David Dixon reports on the state of the NEM's ambition to reach 82% renewables by 2030.
This article looks at the N::N_CNLT_2 transient stability constraint on Tuesday to give an example of why some NSW batteries ended up charging through Tuesday’s price spike.
An update of earlier article (from 8th Sept 2025) comparing Frequency Excursions with instances of large AggROT across Semi-Scheduled units - for 2025 Q3 and 2025 Q4 (ytd).
A summary of a recent academic case study looking into the events of January 22, 2024 in the QLD region, revealing how DER dynamics, weather variability and forecast limitations are amplifying operational challenges.
In the final part of our four-part CIS series, we zoom out to examine what government-backed Contract-for-Difference schemes are really achieving — drawing on policy lessons from the Nelson Review.
Some of our readers will be interested to note that the Factual Report into the ‘Grid Incident in Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025’ was released on 3rd October 2025.
In part three in this series about the CIS, we look at how a curtailment provision — briefly included in drafts for Tender 1 but later removed — may raise questions about how revenue...
In part two of this four part series about the success of the CIS so far, we explore why delivery challenges may have emerged.
Recent debate has centred on the CIS’s success so far. In part one of this four-part series, we look at how projects have progressed since being awarded a contract.