The ABC report that a notable weather record was broken in Tasmania this morning, and opens questions about future wind lulls and a changing climate.
A view of cumulative total wind production in Q2, highlighting a lack of spatial resource diversity, and the future challenges for gas and long-duration storage.
A glance at our generator outages widget shows a further three week delay to the expected RTS of Callide Unit C4.
A look into the geographic spread and diversity of wind production over the past three evenings, where we've seen supply-demand tightness across the NEM.
This evening we are experiencing a tight supply-demand balance NEM-wide, stemming from cold temperatures, and low wind conditions across the southern states.
Part 2 of this analysis into the latest update of the ESOO, its modelling, and the project development pipeline.
A compiled list of development projects delayed or leaving the market in between the ESOO2023 and its update released two weeks ago. Along with some analysis of longer term trends with the development pipeline.
A deeper dive into the geographic spread of wind farm generation and curtailment last Wednesday evening including a look into wind conditions and network topology.
Price volatility has continued in NSW this afternoon, starting at around 3:40pm local time.
Dan Lee takes a deeper dive into network and economic curtailment, and shares some charts and data maps that demonstrate seasonal effects, and the geographic spread of units affected.
This afternoon, Linton and Dan spoke to an audience organised by the Clean Energy Council about VRE and firming - with some snippets to be posted on WattClarity in coming days.
Elon Musk's '100 days or it's free' offer was made almost exactly 7 years ago - how much longer or shorter have battery development delivery times changed since then?
A chart of the the month-by-month semi-scheduled economic and network curtailment totals, along with the top 3 worst hit units over 2023.
A review of battery storage market performance in the NEM throughout 2023, a year in which where we saw the battery fleet double in size.
A quick look into performance of Genex' four DUIDs over 2023, as news broke this morning of a takeover bid from the Japanese-based J-Power.
We've already witnessed four price spikes this afternoon as demand in NSW is approaching its expected peak. P5 forecasts are currently projects prices to remain at very elevated levels for the time being.
Some interesting data coming from our forecast convergence widget yesterday afternoon, hinted to us that bushfire smoke is likely to have been impacting rooftop PV generation levels in Victoria.
The sixth transmission tower failure within the NEM in almost four years, has prompted further questions about the physical network and its resilience to severe convective winds.
Using our soon-to-be-released GSD2023, we can compare the market performance of AGL's Torrens Island BESS against what was published in last week's half-year results presentation from AGL.
Still trying to make sense of what did and didn't happen in QLD last night, Dan Lee provides some context to how yesterday's record-breaking demand compares to similar historical events.