The ‘Connection Point Dispatch (CPD) Price’ was a metric we first used in 2019:
(a) referring to it as a Connection Point Dispatch (CPD) Price, to help avoid confusion with the more internationally used term ‘nodal price’.
(b) But from mid-2025 we have started the process of migrating to the use of the term ‘Local Price’ to adopt the same terminology that is used by the AEMO.
Here’s a collation of articles tagged with ‘CPD Price’ or ‘Local Price’.
A first walk through the ‘Q^^TR_CLHA_-600’ constraint equation (at the 10:00 dispatch interval on Monday 3rd March 2025), before 'next day public' data is available.
On 1st August 2024 the AEMO approved for distribution version 5 of the document 'Guide to Mis-Pricing Information' with reference to the IESS go-live on 3rd June 2024. Hence the date of this article...
Guest author on WattClarity (but co-author of the Generator Statistical Digest 2020) uses the GSD2020 and numbers for preceding years to look at how some of the older solar farms are seeing some changes...
An article published by AEMC on the 'value of dispatchability' provided the spur to return to our intention of freely sharing insights gleaned from the Generator Statistical Digest 2019. Today's article highlighting the value...
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.
Guest author, Allan O'Neil, takes a look, via the GSD2019 (released today), at the four different headwinds facing solar farm developers and operators operating in the NEM.
A quick 2nd article today looking at how Reserve Trader was dispatched (and a couple other complexities)