Three themes from the Energy Storage Summit 2025
Dan provides a brief write-up of his notes from attending the Australian Energy Storage Summit in Sydney last week.
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Today’s presentation to CEC’s Market & Grid Directorate
We thank the Clean Energy Council for the opportunity to share insights into revenue trends, cost trends, and analysis of upcoming changes for units operating in the NEM.
The top 10 batteries under FPP
In his second article, Jack Fox uses the Non Financial Operation (NFO) data to take a look specifically at batteries, and how they would have performed under FPP.
Hot chips, algorithms and electricity markets
Declan Kelly thinks through and discusses competition issues that could arise from the increasing proliferation of auto-bidding software by big batteries in the NEM - and suggests some...
The state-of-charge for 2024: The highs and lows of the big battery boom
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...
NEM batteries transitioned to bidirectional units in 2024
Units typically cut over to their BDU counterpart in 2 weeks once the BDU was registered.
Data Intensity of operating in the NEM, and implications for algorithmic bidding
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...
BESS market operations: We need to talk about being scheduled
James Tetlow of Overwatch Energy shares this article which is adapted from his presentation about BESS operations in the NEM at the recent All-Energy conference in Melbourne.
NEM Volatility: A Curse or a Blessing for Grid Battery Storage?
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.
Big Battery Revenues in the NEM Presentation from All-Energy 2024
Alex Leemon of Gridcog delivered this presentation about Big Battery Revenues in the NEM at All-Energy in Melbourne last week.
‘Operating in the NEM’ … from All Energy 2024
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...
When will we start seeing BDUs in dispatch?
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.
(The main part of) IESS goes live today – Monday 3rd June 2024
A short note (on Monday 3rd June 2024) with the IESS changes going live today.
Delving deeper, into battery (discharge) performance in NSW on Tue 7th May and Wed 8th May
Looking back 4 days (including Wed 8th May 2024) at NSW large-scale battery generator bidding.
Supply-side responses following the trip of two Eraring units on Wednesday 3 April 2024
An inspection of bids and dispatch outcomes indicates some units helped compensate for the loss of supply with the trip of ER01 and ER02.
Batteries, coal revenues and demand response units: Insights from the GSD2023
David Leitch provides his top insights from reading his (pre-published) copy of our GSD2023 - due to be released later this week.
Do we really need Eraring when we’ll have 5,500MW of batteries by 2026?
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)...
Bouldercombe battery has started charging again (Thursday evening 28th September 2023)
A short article Thursday evening 28th September 2023 with the battery back online and charging, after the fire.
Another (Tesla) big battery fire in the NEM … this one at Bouldercombe BESS in QLD
It's Wednesday morning 27th September 2023 and the fire that started last night at Bouldercombe BESS (Tesla battery for Genex) is still burning.
Long or short on storage? A look into price signals for duration
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.