The ‘2025 Victorian Transmission Plan’ released on Sunday 17th August 2025
On the weekend we noticed the release of the 2025 Victorian Transmission Plan, and thought it worth flagging here.
On the weekend we noticed the release of the 2025 Victorian Transmission Plan, and thought it worth flagging here.
Another quick article for Sunday 17th August 2025 – this one noting a new 'lowest ever*' point for 'Market Demand' in Queensland, just shaving prior record from a...
AEMO notes that 'it has determined that an administered price period will commence at the trading interval starting 0520 on 17 August 2025' for FCAS in South Australia....
A quick first look, following the loss of 292MW of 'Market Demand' in Tasmania to 14:11 (NEM time) on Saturday 16th August 2025.
Briefly recapping some of the news pertaining to Eraring Power Station over the past two days.
A belated note that the AEMC published a draft report on their review of the (nearly 4 year old) WDRM initiative - and noting that submissions close today.
We use the elements available dataset to better understand turbines available at Bulgana in recent months.
Worth noting, as I've just become aware, that submissions close tomorrow on AEMO's consultation on Primary Frequency Response (PFR) Test Guidelines for Semi-Scheduled Plant
Earlier today we posted an article about Tamar Valley CCGT getting a run. We should also have noted about Basslink flows, which we have done here.
Monday evening 11th Aug 2025 a ‘unit start’ alert in the ‘Notifications’ widget of ez2view with respect to the TVCC201 unit triggered. We take a look.
We saw first output from the HUNTER1 unit (the first of two at Snowy Hydro's new peaker) on Sunday 27th July 2025. So we're looking a little further,...
On Sunday 3rd Aug 2025 there (appears to have been) a fire at Reece Power Station, and both units tripped. We saw REECE1 return to service Friday evening,...
The Waratah Super Battery System Integrity Protection Scheme (SIPS) was enabled by TransGrid at last Friday 1st August 2025. This prompts this look back on operations thus far.
Yesterday's release of the draft report of the Nelson Review has prompted me to re-frame a question I've asked before about the Semi-Scheduled category.
Yesterday (Wed 6th Aug 2025) we saw the draft report from the ‘Nelson Review’ Panel released ... followed by a presentation by the panel members facilitated by The...
In yesterday’s wrap of the past 5 weeks, I’d noted that Tim Nelson (when speaking at #ACES2025 last Tuesday) said that the Panel had not quite finished the...
Following a tip from a WattClarity reader, we take a quick look at a forced outage for both units at the Reece (hydro) Power Station in Tasmania ......
It’s Tuesday 5th August 2025, my second day back in the office – and this is my first article on WattClarity since this article on Friday 27th June...
Dan provides his review for ACES 2025, and tries to answer some of the questions we were pondering going into the conference.
Categories with a longer bar left of zero are losing more of their spot energy market revenue to regulation and PFR costs.