Whilst we’re waiting to see where ‘Market Demand’ lands for Friday 24th January 2025 (we might report that later), I was curious in terms of supply-side performance of units over the past 4 days in Queensland – including the extreme demand period of Wednesday 22nd January 2025…
Also released on Friday 13th Sept 2024 was this ‘Independent Review of Transmission and Distribution Businesses Operational Response for the 13th February 2024 Storm and Power Outage Event’.
On Wednesday 17th July 2024, CS Energy released the Brady-Heywood report (about Callide C4 failure on 25th May 2021) and the HartzEPM Report (about CallideC3 failure on 31st Oct 2022) … and an Action Plan in response to both.
Enroute to Melbourne today for the EUAA National Conference starting tomorrow, I grabbed some flight time to have a quick read through the Grattan Institute’s latest offering – a 45-page report appropriately titled ‘Keeping the Lights on’: Quite topical that…
Five days after the AER released its quarterly review, the AEMO has released its Quarterly Energy Dynamics for 2024 Q1 … as the second leg of the triptych of detailed quarterly reviews.
Almost 2.5 years since we released GenInsights21, today we’re publishing this article that contains a precis of the analysis included as Appendix 27 under the title ‘Exploring Wind Diversity’.
A somewhat belated note about our release of GenInsights Quarterly Updates report for 2023 Q4 earlier in March 2024.
A short article following AER’s release of an Issues Paper relating to the (soon to be enacted) expansion of its Wholesale Market Monitoring and Reporting responsibilities for Electricity (and Gas).
Our GSD2023 was released just over 4 weeks ago. This is the second sequential article utilising the GSD2023 Data Extract to take a look across all the Semi-Scheduled units (i.e. Wind and Solar). In this case looking at use of Self-Forecasting, and revealing more questions …
Five days after Tuesday 13th February 2024 we have a bit of time to take this initial (top-down) look at bidding for ENERGY in the Victorian region on that day … with 27 Questions/Observations identified!
It’s Thursday 15th February 2024 and (in amongst the detailed analysis relating to Tue 13th Feb 2024 in Victoria) we’re releasing the GSD2023 … the Generator Statistical Digest for the 2023 calendar year.
What happened yesterday (Tue 13th Feb 2024) in Victoria was a significant event in the history of the NEM – and the flow on effects will be felt for weeks and months (even years?). Here’s a starting list of questions we’d like to explore…
A short article to note another view (this one from Clean Energy Finance) on whether Eraring can close in 2025.
Pointing WattClarity readers to FERC’s Final Report into Winter Storm Elliott (the Christmas 2022 storm that contributed to power outages for millions of electricity customers in the Eastern half of North America).
Yesterday (Thu 22nd Dec 2023), Dan Lee posted a summary of WattClarity service through 2023 on our company website. Today I’m sharing that with WattClarity readers here.
The second part of an ongoing case study examining two successive days of low VRE generation in early July 2023. This part examines IRPM, earlier forecasts of available generation and maps the availability by site location.
This morning I was fortunate to listen into an ESIG Webinar with respect to their report ‘Weather Dataset Needs for Planning and Analyzing Modern Power Systems’
Guest author, Allan O’Neil, takes a detailed look at how VIC1-NSW1 transfer capability has been limited frequently due to constraints related to the 051 line in southern NSW, and what it means in terms of inter-regional settlements residue accumulations, market efficiency overall, and the energy transition.
A brief article as a first Case Study looking at Mon 3rd and Tue 4th July 2023, in conjunction with the compilation of GenInsights Quarterly Updates for 2023 Q3.
A short article on Saturday about an AER’s publication that was released in the past week … a review of 2023 Q3.