South Australia islanded (and ~80,000 without power), on Saturday 12th November 2022 (and until Friday 18th Nov 2022)
An initial article with the islanding of the South Australian region on Saturday evening, 12th November 2022.
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ESB releases Directions Paper with respect to Transmission Access Reform
Also today (Thursday 10th November 2022) the ESB has released a Directions Paper on Transmission Access Reform - including suggestions for both Investment Timeframe and Operational Timeframe.
Origin Energy (perhaps) to be acquired and broken apart?
A short article about Origin Energy's announcement today.
Callide B2 back online on Wednesday 9th November 2022
Callide B2 has returned to service - perhaps a bit earlier than earlier projections noted.
Analysis Paralysis – where has our engineering gone?
Kate Summers gave this speech about the 'paralysis by analysis' currently occurring in the energy industry at Melbourne's All-Energy Australia Conference on Wednesday 26th of October.
Back to the future
Greg Thorpe of Oakley Greenwood discusses some of the latest developments in the electricity sector which could be described as 'back to the future'.. and provides a forecast...
Long-range trend of Instantaneous Reserve Plant Margin (IRPM) and focus on Q3 2022 – from GenInsights Quarterly
One of the metrics we introduced into GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2022 Q3 was a long-range review of IRPM (Instantaneous Reserve Plant Margin). In this article we share...
New lowest point for NEMwide demand on Sunday 6th November 2022
On Sunday 6th November 2022 the NEMwide demand dropped below previous 'lowest point' records.
Low wind on Friday 4th November 2022
Following a client request on Friday 4th November, here's a quick look at the low wind conditions occurring on that day.
What’s going on at the Callide power stations?
Prompted by a few media questions (on a day when all 4 units were offline together for about 3 hours), have taken a quick look at the status...
Wholesale Demand Response in the NEM – One year on by the numbers
Casting a look over wholesale demand response in the NEM, one year on, how has participation grown and the capability been used?
Griffith University study ‘Quantifying the risk of renewable energy droughts’
The Griffith University (by Joel Gilmore, Tim Nelson and Tahlia Nolan) study mentioned in earlier RenewEconomy article is now accessible on the Griffith University website here.
Callide C3 unit suffers cooling tower issues
Alerted via an ABC news article, we take a quick look at Callide C3.
Biggest market correction in history
As a sequel to his earlier article, Carl Daley looks at the a number of record corrections in electricity forward prices that occurred yesterday, coming after weeks of...
Market players are poking the bear …
Carl Daley of EnergyByte walks through the 'angry bear response' between market players, and the outcomes and consequences of these actions.
We’ve released GenInsights Quarterly Updates (2022 Q3) on Monday 31st October 2022
On Monday 31st October 2022 we released GenInsights Quarterly Updates for Q3 2022 - second in the expanding series, following customer requests for updates of GenInsights21
Cost-based Modelling is Doing Consumers a Disservice.
Tom Geiser of Neoen writes this think piece about cost-based modelling vs price-based modelling in the broader debate about transmission investment.
Brief spike at 11:10 in NSW and QLD on Monday 31st October 2022
A quick article to document a spike at 11:10 on Monday 31st October ... which seems related (at least in part) to the same network outage as on...
Loy Yang A2 back online – Monday 31st October 2022
A short note about return to service for LYA2, which had been out for over 6 months.
AEMC published a Final Report as part of Stage 2 of the Transmission Planning and Investment Review
A short note about the AEMC's Transmission Planning and Investment Review - Stage 2 Final Report released last week, and submissions on Stage 3 Draft Report due this...