Looks set to be a very tight supply/demand balance this evening in Queensland. Here's hoping everything goes right for the AEMO Control Room!
A quick snapshot from NEMwatch at 14:20 today highlighting the loss of approximately 2000MW of demand this afternoon – dropping the level of Scheduled Demand down to 3,775MW: The AEMO Market Notice highlighted says:...
Was speaking with someone this morning about the expectation that there would be price volatility this evening, and the market obliged. It’s only just started, but here’s the second spike (at 17:40) captured in...
In our development of GenInsights21, we're exploring ways to also include some analysis of different types of stakeholders in the generation process. In this article we outline a couple (and seek your input).
A quick synopsis of some market reforms at the AEMC relating to system frequency.
One of the many data sets being crunched as part of our analytical efforts underpinning the development of 'GenInsights21' is system frequency. In this short article today, we share some initial observations on how...
Spot prices spiked across mainland regions this evening - firstly at 17:55 (above $1,000/MWh). and then at 18:00 (up towards $15,000/MWh). Here's a first look.
Saw an update from the AER this evening pertaining to Liddell unit 3, and had a quick look with the power of the Generator Statistical Digest 2020.
Recent events in the NEM are causing me to wonder whether we've suspended logic, and reason, in charting a workable course through this energy transition?
Over the week that has just passed we kept noticing production from wind farms across the NEM was fairly muted - so we've had a look at what it meant, in aggregate daily capacity...
A quick note to alert our readers that the ESB has published an Options Paper today on the post 2025 Market Design (with submissions due Wed 9th June 2021).
In between other jobs today, we've taken a look at why the price spiked yesterday (Tue 20th April) in QLD ... at an earlier time than we had become accustomed to seeing it occur...
As alluded to in several recent articles, we have underway a process for updating the ~180 page analytical component included in the Generator Report Card 2018 (released 23 months ago now). We are targeting...
More time has elapsed since 'Part 3' on 24th March - today I'm posting a shorter piece (Part 4) that explains how RHS of the ‘Q>>NIL_CLWU_RGLC’ constraint equation drove down output and led to...
Looking back at Tuesday 13th April 2021 - a day in which the ex-tropical cyclone Seroja in Western Australia caused some wobbles in rooftop solar PV output in South Australia.
David Osmond's question on Twitter prompted me to have a look at large wind production overnight.
Reminded by today's spikes, here's a quick look at a similar price spike that occurred yesterday (14:35 on Friday 9th April 2021 in the QLD region).
Three price spikes in the QLD region on Saturday 10th April 2021 help to remind us that how increasingly dependent we are on various machinations of the weather (including, on these occasions, cloud cover...
Following a number of requests from our clients, we are pleased to note that a GSD2020 Data Extract is now available.
It's taken a while to find the time - but today I'm posting this next analytical piece (Part 3) that seeks to understand what happened on Sunday 24th January 2021 with the NEM-wide SCADA...