High NSW price forecasts not materialising in dispatch, 29th November 2024
A curious phenomenon we’ve been watching with interest today has been the somewhat persistent and alarmingly high predispatch price forecasts for NSW.
‘Constraint Equations’ widget
Dispatch of the market’s more complex at present … with SA on its own island (and TAS still in pieces)
One of the side-effects of the transmission issues in South Australia and Tasmania is a (much) more complex dispatch process – with NEMDE file creation times slowing down as a result.
Sequence of events in Tasmania on Friday 14th October 2022 (initial look)
On Friday 14th October we saw a significant system event in Tasmania – with storms downing power links, leading to large (530MW) loss of load and trip of Basslink. In this article we take a first look at the sequence of events…
Diverse generator responses to illusive FCAS prices on Wednesday 10th August 2022
The market volatility on Wednesday 10th August 2022 turned out to be illusive. We review unit output by fuel type to study how different generator groups responded on the day (in aggregate) finding increases, decreases and patterns in between.
Reviewing the ‘accelerated accidental experiment’ thrust on SA during the islanding (31st Jan to 17th Feb) – a 1st review
As time has permitted, I’ve invested some time to prepare this first stage of a review of what went on during the period from 31st Jan 2020 to 17th Feb 2020 – a period during which the South Australian region formed its own frequency island following the transmission line damage. A period we’ve called an ‘accelerated accidental experiment’.