As noted 7 days ago (Tue 5th July), I’ve just returned from over a month away (and disconnected from the NEM), and have been striving to catch up.
One of the things I think everyone in our team missed – and you might have as well – is that the AEMO’s been working through Primary Frequency Response (PFR) Test Guidelines for Semi-Scheduled Plant:
Paul was one of the founders of Global-Roam in February 2000. He is currently the CEO of the company and the principal author of WattClarity. Writing for WattClarity has become a natural extension of his work in understanding the electricity market, enabling him to lead the team in developing better software for clients.
Before co-founding the company, Paul worked as a Mechanical Engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the early 1990s. He also gained international experience in Japan, the United States, Canada, the UK, and Argentina as part of his ES Cornwall Memorial Scholarship.
It’s ~18 months since we took a look at the trend of large instances of Aggregate Raw Off-Target across all Semi-Scheduled units. In this article we update the analysis with data to 30th June 2025.
Does not take long to see why this particular dispatch interval was one of the few dispatch intervals (before 2019!) flagged in our top-down analysis of aggregate Raw Off-Target across all Semi-Scheduled units in the NEM….
This is the third of a short series of video snippets extracted from the 17th September 2020 presentation by Marcelle Gannon and Jonathon Dyson for the Clean Energy Council entitled ‘Maximising Profitability in the NEM’ for Wind Farms.
2 Commentson "Submissions closing tomorrow (Wed 13th Aug 2025) to AEMO consultation on ‘Primary Frequency Response Test Guidelines for Semi-Scheduled Plant’"
Hi Paul, you have probably got this a hundred times already, but in case it was missed; in the headline you have Fri 13th instead of Wed 13th. Spooky.
oops!