A quick snapshot of some volatility in Contingency Raise FCAS Prices in QLD spanning Wednesday 9th October 2024, Thursday 10th October 2024, Friday 11th October 2024.
Read MoreRecording a snapshot from NEMwatch at the 18:00 dispatch interval on Sunday 8th December 2024 to record the start of a run of volatility in QLD (and in NSW).
For several reasons, we’ve reviewed some afternoon volatility in NSW on Friday 6th December 2024.
One of the things I noticed on social media over the past week or so (emanating out of the current Senate Committee on Energy Planning and Regulation in Australia) was the the enhanced visibility given to the ‘Final Report of the the Integrated System Plan’.
This morning at 07:25 the ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view alerted us that ER03 had reached a ‘first output’ milestone during the return-to-service journey.
A short note (and link to) the Mandala report titled ‘Empowering Australia’s Digital Future Data Centres: Essential digital infrastructure underpinning everyday life’.
A snapshot of the 14:35 dispatch interval, at the start of a run of spot price volatility in NSW on Friday afternoon 6th December 2024.
Here’s a quick 14-day review of the operation of the VIC1-NSW1 interconnector, including the price difference across it.
References to WattClarity in today’s session of the Senate Committee on Energy Planning and Regulation in Australia (between Matt Canavan and Daniel Westerman) spiked our interest – and, given the topic was NSW unit outages on Wednesday 27th November 2024, we took a quick look.
On Thursday 5th December 2024, the sun’s set now (at least in Brisbane) and the SMS alerts have begun to trigger because the NEM-wide IRPM has dropped below the 15% alert trigger level.
Worth a brief article with this NEMwatch snapshot at 14:15 (NEM time) with the spot price in South Australia at $12,500.44/MWh.
SA Government has requested that two recently mothballed diesel power stations be eligible for provision of emergency reserves.
We thought we’d take a quick look at Eraring unit 3, given it was the focus of Colin Packham’s article yesterday in the Australian.
Information spanned a wide range of topics related to intermittent generator forecasting, and included a guest presentation by the AER.
Semi-scheduled generators shouldn’t treat self-forecasts as commercial parameters. The regulator holds significant concerns with the biasing of self-forecasts for commercial benefit.
There have been about 10 occasions in the market’s history when the last week of November has led to extreme prices and this November, was no exception – Carl Daley of EnergyByte provides this wrap-up.
High prices eventuate slightly earlier than was earlier predicted, coinciding with the ‘N-CTMN_4_WG_CLOSE’ constraint set starting invocation today.
A short note for Tuesday morning 3rd December 2024 to highlight the emergence of forecast LOR2 conditions (and spicy prices) in NSW for later today
A short record of some high prices in NSW and QLD from 17:35 (NEM time) on Monday 2nd December 2024.
A brief note to record a NEM production systems incident today, December 2, 2024. AEMO declared a major incident (INC0138848) for the Electricity Market Management System service with 4 Dispatch intervals missed. The date and time of the occurrence was…