A very short article here from us today to point readers here to the ABC News article ‘Rio Tinto's Gladstone coal-fired power station could be retired early’ from earlier today
In part because I'm speaking at the NEMDev conference (Wed 8th Oct 2025 in Brisbane) we're taking a pass through the draft Report of the Nelson Review. Some (more realistic than earlier Reviews) statements...
Here's three high-level questions we've been trying to keep in mind, in our reading of the draft Report of the Nelson Review panel - for some belated (informal) submissions here on WattClarity.
I thought it would be useful to pull together this (incomplete) tabulated list of major reviews in the history of the NEM.
On Monday 29th September 2025 the AEMO alerted of possible MSL1 for the coming weekend (Sat 4th October and Sunday 5th October) in Victoria.
On LinkedIn someone wrote about the QLD price dropping to the Market Price Floor for the 10:05 and 10:10 dispatch interval today (Mon 29th Sept 2025). So I had a quick look
Late on Thursday 25th September 2025, the expected start of the short-notice outage at ER03 was pushed back again (this time by a week).
An article in the print version of the AFR this morning (asking more question about the achievability of the closure of Eraring in 2027) prompts some more head scratching.
It was the RenewEconomy article some weeks ago that initially drew our attention to this White Paper ‘The Role of Grid-Forming Inverters in Providing Inertia (in the NEM)’ from Tesla Energy - but we...
As a short follow-on article now mid-morning Thursday 25th September 2025 to highlight the delay in the start of the unplanned outage at ER03 as one of the key drivers in AEMO's cancellation of...
We noticed today (Wednesday 24th September) an ~8 week extension added onto the expected return to service date for YWPS2, which tripped offline due to 'LP turbine issues' in August 2025.
A quick look forward (past the forecast LOR1) to tomorrow evening in NSW, Thursday 25th September 2025.
With the need for an early morning direction flagged for NSW on Thursday 25th September 2025, we take a quick look back 4 weeks ago (to Thursday 28th August 2025) when it happened.
Worth calling out MN129729 published on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 14:29 about possible early-morning intervention in NSW for System Strength reasons
Following from the quick look at the unplanned outage for MP2 (now underway) there's some difference in the picture for the unplanned outage for ER03.
A short note looking at the commencement of the unplanned outage for MP2 on Wednesday morning 24th September 2025
At 15:30 today (Tuesday 23rd September 2025) the AEMO flagged in MN129259 a possible need to intervene in NSW this Thursday 25th September 2025 due to forecast low System Strength.
Today's MT PASA update features forecast tight supply-demand balance in both the SA and NSW regions at various times - in terms of both annual Unserved Energy, and Low Reserve Conditions.
A brief, belated and back-dated article to point to the ABC news article about the damage at Flyers Creek Wind Farm (and
Coincident with last week's CEC's QCES in Brisbane, the Federal Government announced 16 winners for 'Tender 3' of the Capacity Investment Scheme.