Taking the ‘worm line’ cumulative trend recent Q2 periods (used for wind, hydro and gas-fired power), we now apply this to coal-fired generation during 2024 Q2.
Taking the ‘worm line’ cumulative trend recent Q2 periods (used for wind and then hydro), we now apply this to gas-fired generation during 2024 Q2. We see two distinctly different patterns ... early in...
CS Energy has released the latest draft of the ‘Brady Report’ - a draft Executive Summary, a draft Part A (Technical) and a draft Part B (Organisational)
A quick look at the ‘N-DPWG_63_X5’ constraint set as a driver for the curtailment of solar (and other) units in south-western NSW on Monday 24th June 2024.
Taking the ‘worm line’ cumulative trend recent Q2 periods (first used for wind), we now apply this to hydro during 2024 Q2 to see to what extent hydro production volumes are lower than recent...
Extending the 'worm line' cumulative trend of wind production through 2024 Q2 (to 22nd June) and comparing to 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 reveals a picture that is, at the same time, both frightening...
A short article looking forward to AEMO's forecast NEM-wide wind capability for the remainder of June 2024.
A short article looking back 90 days at production volumes, and bid prices, from gas-fired generation.
Worth noting that on Friday evening 21st June 2024 Kogan Creek came back online, ~36 hours after it had come offline.
Tarong unit 3 came offline late Friday afternoon 21st June 2024 ... we take a quick first look
On Friday 21st June 2024 the unit 2 of Barron Gorge hydro facility has started up - the next step in a repair process following TC Jasper six months ago.
A brief recap on another consecutive evening of low NEM-wide IRPM - on Thursday 20th June 2024.
Amongst other things happening in the past 24 hours, the large Kogan Creek coal-fired power station in southern QLD came offline this morning in an outage that appears anticipated two days prior ... but...
In an earlier article today, we identified the 13:20 dispatch interval on Thursday 13th June 2024 was one with very, very low level of wind ... in this short article we take a very...
Given what's happened for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening this week (and even tighter supply-demand balance forecast for Thursday evening) we take a look at the correlation between low IRPM and low Capacity Factor...
On Wednesday 19th June 2024 the AEMO has published this ‘East Coast Gas System Risk or Threat Notice’.
A brief recap of Wednesday evening 19th June 2024.
On Tuesday 18th June 2024, Tallawarra B was running for a period (after a lengthy period offline).
A short note about the (possibly high impact) short outage planned tomorrow on the Rowville - South Morang 500 kV line in VIC (re the ‘V-ROSM’ constraint set)
A very short article to record the Federal Coalition's announcement of possible sites for nuclear power stations.