Articles by Harley MacKenzie

Short term forecasting of wind power plant generation for the provision of ancillary services

Tue 6^th March 2018 7:12 PM | Harley MacKenzie

As NEM wind power plants progressively work towards implementing FCAS, the criticality of ensuring that the power system either a) takes account of the variability in the wind forecasts coming from the wind power plants in the coming 5-7 minutes and follows the wind direction,...

NEM FCAS causer pays factor issues for wind and solar farms

Thu 23^rd March 2017 11:35 AM | Harley MacKenzie

Generators used to consider the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) FCAS causers pays factors (CPF), used to allocate FCAS regulation costs across the market, as an obscure and unimportant technically challenging curiosity. Since 2014, the cost of FCAS regulation services for generators has increased from...