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.
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...