The Reliability Panel responded to the AEMO’s first iteration of the annual Transition Plan for System Security (TPSS) with comments with this 4-page letter on Wednesday 23rd April 2025.
I've promised to write this article for some time, but a few recent events (and looming start of FPP) have caused me to publish this now.
As they were occurring, we noted some instances of price volatility over several consecutive days earlier this month: On Monday 7th April 2025; On Tuesday 8th April 2025; On Wednesday 9th April 2025; On...
On Tuesday 15th April 2025, the AEMO published its draft report on 'Congestion Information Resource Guidelines', seeking feedback by Monday 19th May 2025.
As the next steps in implementing the AEMC's ISF Reforms, the AEMO has published: (a) on 7th April a consultation; and (b) on 17th April a HLIA.
On Monday 7th April, the AEMO commenced a consultation on the Constraint Formulation Guidelines - which touches on three different changes that some of our readers will find of interest.
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 to accept cash as credit support.
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 present on Tuesday 15th April 2025.
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 time).
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 we’ve attended. Here's a summary...
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.
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.