On Tuesday 21st December 2021 the AER requested the AEMC to consider changing the prescriptive requirements in the Rules for the AER to analyse particular types of market outcomes in particular ways, and instead provide the AER more flexibility in what its analysis covers.
Same day as we released GenInsights21, the AEMO published its High Level Design on how they will implement the AEMC Rule Change determination on Integrating Energy Storage Systems (IESS) into the NEM. Here's the key dates.
With GenInsights21 released two weeks ago (and only yesterday all pre-orders and orders processed and invoices provided, as noted here) I’m catching up on a number of different things – actions I promised for clients, and also what’s been happening in the market. Given that...
Out-of-the-blue, the price spikes up near $10,000/MWh in South Australia on an otherwise 'boring' day ... a sign of what we should expect increasingly in future?
A quick look at Tuesday 28th December 2021 - when 'Market Demand' (but not 'Operational Demand') fell a shade lower than the prior low point record.
A quick look at this evening's volatility.
Last Wednesday (15th December) we released GenInsights21. In this article we provide a full list of the 28 Appendices included with the publication, and from which many of the Key Observations have been drawn.
A first quick look at an elevated price event in the QLD region on Monday 20th December 2021
Price volatility in South Australia on Wednesday morning, 16th December reminds of the observations made in GenInsights21
On 16th October 2025, we posted ‘Some suggestions for the Nelson Review panel to consider (with respect to Forecasting) following review of the Draft Report’, and in that mentioned this Key Observation #6 from within GenInsights21.
Back in on 15th December 2021 we released the GenInsights21, including 22 Key Observations … with Observation titled about ‘The schism seems permanent’.
It's Wednesday 15th December 2021 and we have released GenInsights21 (a deep dive exploration, asking what history can tell us of the challenges and requirements of the accelerating energy transition).
Here's a snapshot of the ‘Unit Dashboard’ widget in ez2view of the HPRG1 unit (i.e. the pre-IESS generation side DUID for the Hornsdale Power Reserve) on Monday 13th December 2021
Low wind harvest, NEM-wide, was a feature of Tuesday 14th December 2021.
Some price volatility in South Australia on Monday 13th December 2021
A short note about the release, earlier this week, by the AEMO of the 'Initial Roadmap' in the NEM Engineering Framework.
Yesterday, Friday 10th December 2021, the AEMO released it's draft of the 2022 Integrated System Plan - and it has created a bit of a stir with some of the modelled results.
Some price volatility in QLD on Thursday evening, 9th December 2021 presenting a small distraction on our GenInsights21 completion process.
Here's the 6th Dec 2021 status update on your GenInsights21 release - we've completed (most of) the work for you, just need to wrap it all together by answering questions like 'so what's this all mean, when considered together?'.
A short article (in the midst of GenInsights21 completion) more broadly sharing 2 good news stories from AEMO in the context of the NEMDE dispatch process.