Early on Friday morning 14th March 2025, ElectraNet experienced an unplanned network outage - including the Hummocks - Bungama 132 kV line, and Hummocks - Waterloo 132 kV...
An article on DTN (formerly Weatherzone) prompts a look at forecasts for NSW this Sunday 16th March 2025
It’s Friday morning 14th March 2025 and a quick review at the Energex Outage finder shows that we’re down to ‘only’ ~17,000 customers off supply
A short note with a snapshot from NEMwatch at 17:40 (NEM time) on Thursday 13th March 2025 to mark some volatility.
In his first article, Jack Fox reports some initial observations from a review of the Non Financial Operations (NFO) data that's been published since Dec 2024.
Various authors have shared articles about frequency, frequency control and Regulation FCAS in recent times (including 6 from Linton). Here's three things that jumped out to me in...
A quick article to record this large drop in 'Market Demand' in TAS, notified to us by the ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view at 12:00 (NEM time) on Wednesday...
AWEFS and ASEFS dispatch availability forecast systems experienced what looks to be an outage and we uncover how the 'SCADA' origin filled the gap.
Which much attention focused on Queensland (in the wash out that has been TC Albert) a rogue Administered Pricing Notice (MN125439) for South Australia was a head scratcher,...
It’s Sunday morning 9th March 2025 and a reference to the Energex Outage Map shows many more orange splotches denoting unplanned outages (by virtue of ex-TC Alfred).
Taking another look (on Saturday afternoon 8th March 2025) at what we can see of those network elements in northern NSW that tripped on Friday morning 7th March...
A Saturday morning update (8th March 2025) following the overnight advance of TC Alfred.
The notice informs us that an update to the Yass overload trip scheme means it is now managing flows on lines 990, 991 and 970 132kV in both...
Because not all have access to Anthony Cornelius' updates on LinkedIn, but many are interested in TC Alfred, I have shared Anthony's update from Friday morning 7th March...
The AEMO notes that, at 06:12 (NEM time) on Friday 7th March 2025 various 132kV lines between Lismore and Mullumbimby tripped, along with No 1 and 2 cables...
AEMO is seeing considerable uncertainty in forecasting daytime 'Market Demand' for QLD (and NSW, to lesser extent) in the near term due to uncertainties in the approach of...
This article reviews regulation FCAS costs in 2024, relative to maximum capacity, and uncovers drivers behind high non-scheduled unit costs.
The introduction of frequency performance payments in 2025 changes how costs of regulating frequency are quantified and allocated. This article inspects historical trends in regulation FCAS enablement levels...
A third step in the 'Energy Literacy' journey in helping readers to understand the complexities within each and every Dispatch Interval.
A quick record of a unit trip at Bayswater Power Station on Wednesday afternoon 5th March 2025.