Following on from a similar review this time last year, Dan provides an updated look at the economics and performances within the NEM’s big battery fleet, making use of our recently released GSD2024.
Units typically cut over to their BDU counterpart in 2 weeks once the BDU was registered.
Philippe Orhan from Neoen shares this article which is adapted from his presentation about BESS bidding (and dealing with the complexity in the data) in the NEM at the recent All-Energy conference in Melbourne.
Pan Galanis from Akaysha Energy presented the content from this article at the ‘Operating in the NEM’ session at All Energy in Melbourne last week.
Alex Leemon of Gridcog delivered this presentation about Big Battery Revenues in the NEM at All-Energy in Melbourne last week.
Specifically with respect to All Energy 2024, I can categorically state that the ‘Operating in the NEM’ session that was conducted on Thursday 24th October 2024 was easily the best* session I attended throughout the event.
With the clock ticking down to the staggered migration of battery unit registrations to the new BDU (bi-directional unit) format, in this article we recap our current expectations.
A short note (on Monday 3rd June 2024) with the IESS changes going live today.
Looking back 4 days (including Wed 8th May 2024) at NSW large-scale battery generator bidding.
An inspection of bids and dispatch outcomes indicates some units helped compensate for the loss of supply with the trip of ER01 and ER02.
David Leitch provides his top insights from reading his (pre-published) copy of our GSD2023 – due to be released later this week.
Tristan Edis from Green Energy Trading discusses whether a surge in renewable energy projects and battery capacity would be sufficient to fill any reliability gap before (and after) Eraring’s scheduled closure.
A short article Thursday evening 28th September 2023 with the battery back online and charging, after the fire.
It’s Wednesday morning 27th September 2023 and the fire that started last night at Bouldercombe BESS (Tesla battery for Genex) is still burning.
Dan Lee looks into utility-scale storage in Queensland – including the need for megawatt-hours, the state of the build-out, and the current market price signal for duration.
In his second article about the 2023 ESOO, guest author Allan O’Neil takes a look at what the AEMO has published with respect to various options for firming capacity to increase the reliability of aggregate supply to below the two thresholds (the Reliability Standard and the Interim Reliability Standard)
A short, belated (and back-dated) article about the change to the original IESS Rule.
Three other reports released by AEMO on 1st December 2022 will also make for interesting reading.
On 7th July 2022 the AEMO published the final ‘High Level Design’ for the IESS implementation.
Someone asked me a question on social media this morning about batteries ‘withdrawing capacity’ … here’s a view of what’s happened using ez2view (and as presented to EUAA).