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.
A short note about a spell of high NEM-wide 'Market Demand' on Wednesday morning 19th June 2024.
A contemporaneous record of a run of low IRPM on a NEM-wide basis that's reached 120 minutes long.
A short note recording the (very fortuitous) curtailment of the 'N-CTYS_3L_WG_CLOSE' constraint set as the Collector Wind Farm to Yass 3L 330kV line returns to service 3 weeks earlier than expected.
Mt Piper unit 1 appears to have come offline overnight for boiler tube leak, with expected return to service sometime Monday 24th June 2024.
Following a 90-minute period of low IRPM yesterday evening (Mon 17th June 2024) we take a quick look at see forecast low levels of IRPM for Tue 18th June evening (very low!) and Wed...
Second article this evening (Mon 17th June 2024) adding some more detail to the tight supply-demand balance, hence low IRPM, this evening.
With the clock ticking down to the staggered migration of battery unit registrations to the new BDU (bi-directional unit) format, in this article we recap our current expectations.
An initial walk through afternoon volatility seen today (Fri 14th June 2024) in Tasmania.
A quick look at several different coal-fired units, via the 'Generator Outages' widget in ez2view.
Early in June 2024 we see the Tamar Valley CCGT unit running strongly in Tasmania for the first time in just over 5 years ... part of the strongest run of gas-fired generation in...
A quick look at market outcomes at the 08:25 dispatch interval on Thursday morning 13th June 2024.
A short-and-sweet (and back-dated) article to provide an overview of broad market outcomes on Sunday 9th June 2024.
Following Colin Packham's article in the Australian, we take a look in the market data at EnergyAustralia's Tallawarra B
Second short case study today in relation to Aggregate Scheduled Target ... this one focused on a large ROCUP on Thursday afternoon 18th January 2024.