From Monday 5th May to Friday 9th May 2025 was like an unofficial Energy Week in Melbourne for me, out-and-about at a few events. Here's my record of some of what happened...
A short note to flag this 3-day extension to the unplanned outage at Callide C3.
A short note to highlight some early evening volatility from 16:55 (NEM time) on Sunday 18th May 2025.
On Tuesday 13th May 2025 we quickly noted a period of volatility that was mainly focused on the NSW region. Here's a third step in understanding contributing factors...
Whilst in the process of publishing a look at yesterday, I wondered about the possibility of price volatility this evening ... and that's what happened.
Yesterday (Tuesday 13th May 2025) we quickly noted a period of volatility that was mainly focused on the NSW region. Here's a second step in understanding contributing factors...
CS Energy published a media release on Friday 9th May 2025 'Upgrading Reporting Processes to Support the Electricity Maintenance Guarantee'
A short not tying together several different notes about Callide C - the part buyout by 7GI and resurrection of out voluntary administration (and outage on C3).
From the 16:35 on Tue 13th May 2025 the price spiked in NSW above $10,000 (though there were a couple clues as to the possibility ahead of time).
We noticed last week that both quarterly digests from the AEMO and the AER for 2025 Q1 were released on the same day – Wednesday 7th May 2025.
At 14:03 on Monday 12th May 2025 (in MN126998) the AEMO flagged a 'forecast LOR2' for South Australia for midday on Thursday 15th May 2025.
Another short article to record this 404MW jump in ‘Market Demand’ in the Victorian region from the 07:50 to 07:55 dispatch interval (NEM time) on Wednesday 7th May 2025.
I'm slated to participate at a panel session at the EUAA National Conference on Wednesday 7th May 2025, so have prepared some analysis to talk through...
Before tomorrow's CEC WInd Forum, I wanted to piece together this quick record of the inaugural Clean Energy Investor Forum (CEIF) by the CEC in Sydney on Thursday 3rd April 2025
The way I see it, there are at least these 4 lenses that need to be viewed together to understand the complexities relating to coal closure.
Flagging this 464MW drop in 'Market Demand' in NSW on Sunday 4th May 2025, as something that might be explored later...
Submissions at the AEMC already closed over a week ago, with respect to their review of WDRM. Here's some starting thoughts ...
In the Social Media commentary (and even full media articles) following the recent Blackout it feels a bit (frustrating and) like playing 'Blackout Buzzword Bingo' in trying to understand what actually happened...
With much attention in the past week being focused on the major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe, it’s worth noting there was a blackout in Bali on Friday 2nd May 2025
On Tuesday 29th April 2024 we noted a glitch in some ez2view widgets stemming from changes in the EMMS triggered by the upgrade process for Data Model v5.5.