Back in July 2025 we saw the AEMO had released this ‘Technical Review of the NEM Frequency Control Landscape’ … but are only noting this here now.
Returning for the second day of CEC QCES in the 'Long Duration Energy Storage' Oliver Nunn shared more insights from the Endgame modelling.
Flagging two charts that Rimu talked through to sum up some of the observations he made about some modelled results for some (unstated) year late in the next decade.
From the CEC QCES 2025 was this pair of charts that Rimu Nelson (from CleanCo) presented to illustrate the vastly different operating profiles for Swanbank E and Wivenhoe pumped hydro.
A short article to wrap up some of the content delivered in the Long Duration Energy Storage session at the CEC's QRES 2025.
One of the other sessions at CEC QRES that was of interest was the 'Operating in the NEM' session, from which we'll look to share more.
Referencing AEMO's MN129117 published Tuesday 16th September 2025 with respect to this Friday 19th September 2025.
About 4 weeks ago the 2025 ESOO was released. In this article we highlight 3 x 2 different ways this might be viewed - and note some other dimensions not considered.
Also featuring in the (perhaps misnamed) 'Faster than Forecast' session was David Dixon from Rystad - here's two things that jumped out to me.
A short note about some comments made by Oliver Nunn during the 'Faster than Forecast' session at Queensland Clean Energy Summit on Mon 15th Sept 2025.
I thought it was worth noting a couple of observations following the afternoon session at day 1 of Queensland Clean Energy Summit, titled ‘Faster than Forecast’.
Whilst attending day 1 of the CEC’s ‘Queensland Clean Energy Summit 2025’ yesterday we noticed the release of the Climate Risk Assessment, and the Adaptation Plan
A quick article to explore a frequency drop on Thursday evening 11th September 2025.
Worth a short note to point readers here to the current details about the conference – which is to be held in Brisbane on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th October 2025.
Combining together a bundle of different metrics related to the 'availability' of a wind farm, we take a look at what's happened at Bulgana Wind Farm over the past ~25 months.
A short article to look at the first instance of the new ‘V_NWVIC_GFT1_750’ constraint equation binding - on Wednesday evening 10th September 2025 (not 36 hours after it had first been introduced).
We noticed Bruce Mountain’s comments on LinkedIn about Newport power station running overnight, so had a look in ez2view.
A quick note to call attention to this recent alert from NERC with respect to ‘Large Load Interconnection, Study, Commissioning, and Operations’
A brief look at recent operational challenges at Yallourn unit 4.
In this article, we tie together various events since 1st January 2024 that featured either System Frequency outside the NOFB and large AggROT for Semi-Scheduled assets.