A look at curtailment through the GSD2024
After reviewing the latest version of our Generator Statistical Digest (GSD), David Leitch shares his top insights about VRE curtailment across the NEM in 2024.
Coopers Gap Wind Farm
Highlighting Coopers Gap Wind Farm rebid on Sunday evening 12th June 2022
Will need more time to think why Coopers Gap WF would bid in this way on Sunday evening with 'Actual LOR2' notices at play.
First big price spike in QLD at 18:35 on Wednesday 9th March 2022
Does not look like demand will rise as high on Wednesday evening as it did on Tuesday ... but the price still spiked.
The performance of QLD’s two wind farms through Tuesday 1st February 2022
A quick look at how QLD's Wind Farms performed today ... Tuesday 1st February 2022.
What happened at each of the DUIDs impacted by the ‘Q>>NIL_CLWU_RGLC’ constraint equation on Sunday 24th January 2021 (Part 5)
It's now seven months since the SCADA outage on Sunday 24th January 2021 - and we're finally able to complete and publish this (quite long) article exploring some of the implications for units on...
NEM Local Temperature alert for Dalby (QLD) for Sat 16th Jan 2021 … an opportunity to check the draft GSD2020
Today (Wed 13th Jan 2021) a high temperature alert published by AEMO for the Dalby area in southern QLD prompted a quick look at what the GSD2020 shows, in terms of high-temperature limitations of...
What lies ahead for the NEM in 2020? Some lessons from 2019
Guest author, Ben Willacy, takes a first look at the Generator Statistical Digest 2019 and highlights a few initial observations relating to the performance of wind, solar and storage in this energy transition.