All’s been quiet in the Australian National Electricity Market … which is not the same as the situation in North America, where extreme cold has stretched supplies across a large swathe of the country and storms have disrupted supply to more than a million people.
A short note about AEMO’s MN104622 … with a high temperature warning for Port Augusta for 26th December 2022.
A consultation paper (emissions reduction objective in the NEO) has been released, with submissions due 7th Feb 2023.
CS Energy’s Kogan Creek restarted on the morning of Tuesday 20th December 2022.
No change in return-to-service expectation for Callide C3.
A quick note to echo the news from CS Energy that the replacement generator transformer is onsite.
A series of SMS alerts today, whilst I was out-and-about prompted me to take a look at the new low point for Victorian minimum demand on Sunday 18th December 2022.
Today (Thu 15th Dec) the AER published their Wholesale electricity market performance report 2022 – their third report in this series.
Today (Thu 15th Dec 2022) the AER released its ‘June 2022: Market events investigation report’, which might be widely read.
Striving to catch up on a couple weeks away, today I’ve tried to piece together the current state of deliberations about the potential (and rushed) implementation of caps on domestic gas and coal prices feeding into the NEM.
Another headline report released in the past couple weeks was the ACCC’s 8th update of its ‘Inquiry into the National Electricity Market’
Three other reports released by AEMO on 1st December 2022 will also make for interesting reading.
A short note to mark the agreed introduction of a “Capacity Investment Scheme” … but not for fossil-fuelled assets.
First day back in the NEM after a break and I see the that the ‘N-RVYS_2’ Constraint Set is contributing to morning price volatility in the NSW region again.
Yesterday’s note from ElectraNet prompted this initial summary of some of what we’ve seen happen with the SA islanding event over the last 12 days.
A short article, to record the upgrade of the ASEFS and AWEFS forecasts for Semi-Scheduled (i.e. Wind and Large Solar) units.
On Saturday evening 19th November 2022 the Heywood interconnector returned to service following temporary repairs to the tower damaged on Saturday 12th November.
A short article to record the curtailment of rooftop PV underway in South Australia on Saturday 19th November 2022.
Rounding out the working week, there’s *currently* no forecast for curtailment of rooftop PV in SA on Friday 18th Nov (but clarifying it did happen on Monday 14th Nov 2022).
In GenInsights Quarterly Update for Q3 2022 we included an Appendix exploring what we could observe ‘One Year on from Five Minute Settlement’. In this article we share a small slice of what we learnt…