Recapping aggregate solar yield in Queensland’s ‘wet week’ prior to Easter 2024
A quick look back at the period before easter 2024, which was forecast to be a wet week in QLD ... looking particularly at solar yield.
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Case Study of inertia supplied by source in the NSW grid on Tuesday 14th November 2023
With GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4 completed, and some time till the end of 2024 Q1, we've looked back at Tuesday 14th November 2023 (when AEMO had...
Weatherzone forecasts possibility of Wind Farm (high wind speed) Cut Outs
A Weatherzone forecast of potential high wind-speed cut-outs at some Wind Farms in the coming days will be of interest to some WattClarity readers.
Missing megawatts and phantom generation
Seven days ago, AEMO notified the market of a Scheduling Error from 24th Jan 2024 to 7th March 2024. A client asked us what it meant - so...
The earlier fire at Torrens Island switchyard (Mon 25th March 2024)
Yesterday we wrote briefly about ‘Electrical fire in switchyard at Torrens Island Power station’ following a tip on 7News. In that news update, 7News mentioned that there was...
The fire at Torrens Island switchyard (Wed 27th March 2024) curtailed the Torrens Battery
With 'next day public' bid data, we see the impact the switchyard fire had on Torrens Island BESS on Wed 27th March 2024.
Electrical fire in switchyard at Torrens Island Power station
A quick article following a 7News Adelaide report of an electrical fire at Torrens Island power station.
Pelican Point penalised $900,000 for breach on Wed 8th February 2017
Today (Wed 27th March 2024) the AER issues a Media Release about a $900,000 penalty to Pelican Point (owned by Engie) relating to breach of rules on 8th...
GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4 released
A somewhat belated note about our release of GenInsights Quarterly Updates report for 2023 Q4 earlier in March 2024.
Another slight slippage in return to service (RTS) expectation for Callide C3
A short note about another (minor) delay in return to service for the repaired Callide C3 unit, that suffered a cooling tower failure.
The BOM reference document ‘Australian Space Weather Alert System’
This BOM document ‘Australian Space Weather Alert System’ might be a useful reference.
AEMO Market Notice about ‘Space weather’
Early this morning AEMO issued MN115774 about a Space Weather Event and warned 'the effects are expected to be significant'.
A focused look at operations at Victoria Big Battery (VBB) on Tuesday 13th February 2024
In this article we circle back to Tuesday 13th February 2024 to tick off a few more of the long list of questions about the 'Major Power System...
Background information about the Victorian Big Battery and the SIPS service (System Integrity Protection System)
Prompted by the other article today, I've taken a look at published information about the required operations of the Victoria Big Battery (VBB) under the System Integrity Protection...
AEMO report on multiple incidents impacting SCADA over almost 3 years 2021, 2022 and 2023
Also last week, AEMO informed the market of the availability of a report outlining 18 discrete incidents, over a period of just under 3 years, that included SCADA...
ESIG Report ‘New Resource Adequacy Criteria for the Energy Transition’
Last week I was notified of the release of a new ESIG report ‘New Resource Adequacy Criteria for the Energy Transition’, which will be of interest to some...
AER issues paper on Enhanced Wholesale Market Monitoring and Reporting Guideline
A short article following AER's release of an Issues Paper relating to the (soon to be enacted) expansion of its Wholesale Market Monitoring and Reporting responsibilities for Electricity...
Where’s that major planned outage for YWPS1 go?
A client question (for GenInsights Quarterly Updates) recently prompted a quick look at the delay to the start of the planned outage for Yallourn Unit 1.
AEMO notifies of Scheduling Error (Incident 60) from 24th Jan 2024 to 7th March 2024
A short note on Thu 21st March 2024, the day the AEMO notifies the market of a Scheduling Error (incident 60) spanning 24th January 2024 to 7th March...
Further thoughts (part 2) about the design paper for the implementation of the proposed Capacity Incentive Scheme
Guest author, Ben Skinner, returns with the second instalment on his thoughts about the Design Paper for the Capacity Investment Scheme - with submissions due next Monday 25th...