Drop in NEM Mainland Frequency appearing to coincide with trips at New England Solar Farm, on Saturday 19th April 2025
We take a quick look, after AEMO noted that at 13:51 (NEM time) the New England Solar Farm No.1 and No.2 both tripped.
We take a quick look, after AEMO noted that at 13:51 (NEM time) the New England Solar Farm No.1 and No.2 both tripped.
A little over 2 weeks ago (on Thu 3rd April 2025) the AEMC made a draft determination on the rule change proposal by Delta Electricity to allow AEMO...
On Thursday 17th April 2025, the AER published its Final Decision on the Service Target Performance Incentive Scheme (STIPS) for transmission companies.
It’s not the first time that it’s happened in the history of the NEM, but worth noting that we're (temporarily) down to 1 x Bayswater unit online at...
At 16:01 on April 10, 2025, a system frequency dip was observed from the Global-Roam frequency logger.
Elevated prices struck QLD and NSW for the fourth night in a row - with spot prices climbing above the $1,000MWh mark briefly this afternoon.
High speed frequency measurements provide a deeper understanding of how the system responded to the unplanned 500kV line outage.
Worth capturing MN126466 published at 11:12 today with respect to PEC Stage 1.
Third article about the large drop in demand in Victoria observed on Thursday morning 10th April 2025.
First article about the latest long forced outage for Callide C3 - beginning April 2025.
Second article about the large drop in demand in Victoria observed on Thursday morning 10th April 2025.
Noting a large 582MW drop in ‘Market Demand’ in Victoria this morning (Thu 10th April 2025) – as captured in this ‘Notification’ alert in ez2view at 08:31 (NEM...
A string of SMS alarms alerts us to another burst of high prices in the two northern regions, early this evening
Yesterday (Tue 8th April 2025) we were pleased to be able to host a table at the biggest Queensland Energy Club lunch event of all the ones that...
Here a view of the ‘Generator Outages’ widget in ez2view at the 07:55 dispatch interval on Wednesday 9th April 2025.
Following yesterday's (more sustained) volatility in QLD and NSW, here's a record of an evening blip in QLD and NSW on Tuesday 8th April 2025.
A very short article with this snapshot from NEMwatch at 17:50 (NEM time) on Monday 7th April 2025 to mark some evening volatility in NSW and QLD.
Josh Boegheim from Powerlink discusses the limitations of perfect foresight assumptions for system planning—and shares results from a recent study that simulated energy storage dispatch using deterministic and...
5th article in a series, about the AEMO's ICF0002 initiative (and prior to tomorrow's EWCF Meeting) - to identify some questions and concerns.
As promised in prior articles, here's an illustration of (some of the) different Ramp Trajectories considered in Dispatch within the NEM.