It was now just over 5 years ago when Marcelle wrote ‘Not as simple as it appears – estimating curtailment of renewable generation’. This week's invocation of the...
WDR capacity has increased by 23 MW since our last look, and much of it happened recently.
An updated look at conditions in SA early next week, where a forecast LOR3 is now appearing for next Wednesday. We also look at the invocation schedule for...
System frequency shows improved resilience to sudden coal generation events since 2020.
A very short midday article on Wednesday 25th June 2025 noting this apparent trip of LYA2 unit from 443MW just prior to 11:31 (NEM time).
For those interested in ‘what happened, why and what should be done about it’ with respect to the 28th April 2025 blackout on the Iberian Peninsula, ENTSO-E is...
At 17:44 yesterday (Monday 23rd June 2025) the AEMO issued MN127743 noting an unplanned outage of Darlington Point - Wagga No.63 330 kV line (leading to the ‘N-DPWG_63_X5’...
A quick look into those LOR forecasts for South Australia next Monday, including a view of forecasts for market demand, wind and solar conditions, and generator outages.
Another short article about a large change in demand – this one being a 409MW drop in ‘Market Demand’ to the 12:10 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Tuesday...
Beginning Monday evening 23rd June 2025, the AEMO has forecast extremely tight supply-demand balance in South Australia (including possible load shedding) for Monday 30th June 2025.
We see a new record for NEM-wide wind production was set at 22:35 (NEM time) on Monday evening 23rd June 2025, with aggregate FinalMW reaching 9,491MW.
On Wednesday 18th June 2025 Red Eléctrica (REE) published on the “Blackout in Spanish Peninsula Electrical System on 28th of April 2025” .
A count of coal generator events indicates large unit trips are less frequent.
It was with interest that one of our team members noted David Osmond’s comment earlier today when he said 'June 12 was one of the most challenging days...
Here’s a snapshot from NEMwatch at 17:35 on Wednesday 18th June 2025 as food for further discussions at 'Energy Week' in Melbourne tomorrow.
Earlier today we wrote about the ‘News Release on the blackout on the Iberian Peninsula...’. Here's the report (which we could not find at the time).
On Tue 17th June 2025 (local time) a news release has been made to suggest a report into the April 2025 power outage on Iberian Peninsula has been...
A quick look at two particular instances of (relatively small) frequency disruption on Tuesday 17th June 2025.
Following on from Linton's article (about the frequency drop at 15:40 on Monday 16th June 2025) we take a look at the largest harmful Dispatch Errors across the...
In reviewing system frequency on the 16th of June, 2025, we observed a drop that reached below the NOFB.