The AEMO began publishing actual intermittent generators (SCADA) availability data:
(a) to the EMMS Data Model in the Production environment from August 13th 2024 and
(b) to NEMWeb from August 14th 2024.
A short record of a coal unit trip around the time of a system frequency drop. on Wednesday 14th August 2024.
A belated article about the belated release (on Monday 12th August 2024) of GenInsights Quarterly Updates for 2024 Q1.
A quick article about evening volatility (in South Australia only?) on Tuesday 6th August 2024
A slightly longer summary (compared to this morning’s) of some evening volatility (across the NEM) on Monday evening 5th August 2024.
A quick summary of some morning volatility (particularly SA, VIC and SA) on Monday morning 5th August 2024.
Curiosity drove us to take this initial (and very quick) look at bidding behaviour, NEM-wide, across the past 14 days in relation to recent NEM-wide price volatility.
A short initial article, 5 days after Callide C3 came offline again for another forced outage … during a period that’s seen multi-region spot price volatility.
A quick snapshot of evening volatility across the NEM on Wednesday 31st July 2024.
Following recent market volatility, here’s a quick look at the current trend of Cumulative Price for each region.
On Wednesday 24th July 2024, the AEMO and AER *both* published their quarterly reviews of 2024 Q2 … here are some quick notes for future reference.
A short article in conjunction with GenInsights Quarterly Updates for 2024 Q2, trending NEM-wide % VRE over 12 days in June 2024.
A short article in conjunction with GenInsights Quarterly Updates for 2024 Q2, trending NEM-wide IRPM over 9 days in June 2024.
Looking forwards to some tight supply-demand balance (and potentially record-breaking demand) for mornings early next week in Tasmania.
We’ve clocked over into Friday 26th July 2024 – here’s a quick record of how wind yield from Wind Farms across the NEM has been on a sustained high the past week.
A question from a WattClarity reader prompts this quick article about reduced output at Kogan Creek, and some questions about why.
A quick record of Tamar Valley CCGT coming offline yesterday (Tue 23rd July 2024) after 40 days of solid operations through a low-rain and low-wind winter in Tasmania.
A quick look (on Sunday 17th July 2024) at recent NEM-wide wind production patterns into 2024 Q3.
On Wednesday 17th July 2024, CS Energy released the Brady-Heywood report (about Callide C4 failure on 25th May 2021) and the HartzEPM Report (about CallideC3 failure on 31st Oct 2022) … and an Action Plan in response to both.
It’s day 1 of the CEC’s Clean Energy Summit … perhaps a fitting day to see first operations of a (single unit) bi-directional unit?!