Reading an article in the Courier Mail on Saturday I was struck by the use of two particularly odd examples to support a case for retention of government...
Here's a chronological record of key aspects of government involvement in the generation sector within Queensland.
Some quick thoughts about the comparison being made by others between two ageing coal-fired power stations (Liddell power station in NSW and the Muja A&B stations in the...
Guest author, Andrew Bonwick, posts his thoughts on a range of challenges confronting us in this energy transition.
[PART 2 of] a post by guest author, Bruce Miller – which was initially posted on LinkedIn as one piece, but which has been broken into two on...
[PART 1 of] a post by guest author, Bruce Miller - which was initially posted on LinkedIn as one piece, but which has been broken into two on...
Following from my August update, here's two developments we have seen in relation to retail & networks regulation.
Our first look at trended LGC production (aggregated by state/territory) and LGC spot prices (monthly average), now possible in NEMreview v7, generates a number of questions...
It was inevitable that Semi-Scheduled plant would start to experience times when they are dispatched down. It's a big prompt to take next steps up the learning curve.
One of the challenges in analysis is to even be conscious of the need to ascertain "what might have otherwise been".
An article that sums up some decidedly un-quick calculations we've performed - looking over an 8 week period to 13th September to estimate how much wind power has...
A quick look at the scale of the challenge, if Mt Piper were to be forced to close following a court challenge to coal supplies upstream
Some initial analysis by our guest author, Allan O'Neil, about what AEMO's Statement of Opportunities 2017 is saying in terms of this coming summer 2017-18
A brief explainer of what "Unserved Energy" (or USE) actually means, in the context of the AEMO "Electricity Statement of Opportunities 2017" (ESOO) released this week.
The wholesale cost of electricity has risen (too fast, too high) in recent years. However let's not let ourselves be conned into believing that this has arisen, now,...
On Saturday 2nd September, AEMO responded to a BOM-issued "Severe Weather Event" warning by reducing flow capacity west on the Heywood link. Here's how that looked...
From one extreme (perhaps lowest ever in June 2017, on like-for-like) to the other (new record production) in the space of just one month for aggregate wind in...
Some thoughts from guest author, Connor James, about "what's next" in response to energy user concerns about high and escalating prices.
Following Wednesday's article by Paul McArdle on WattClarity, we've reviewed the (very cloudy) weather patterns for Friday 19th May 2017, and the accuracy of Solcast's predictions of a...
Some thoughts about challenges with intermittent solar PV, triggered by this week's Solar Eclipse in North America