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.
energy arbitrage
Trended bidding from BESS discharge (NEM-wide) … highlighting APC and Market Suspension
Someone asked me a question on social media this morning about batteries ‘withdrawing capacity’ … here’s a view of what’s happened using ez2view (and as presented to EUAA).
Spot price arbitrage with battery storage – a review of 2020 performance
With UQ recently publishing a performance review of their 1.1MW battery project for the 2020 calendar year, Andrew Wilson posts some extracts from the full report, particularly focusing on the battery’s arbitrage function.
5-minute settlement – Why it makes such a difference to utility scale storage in Australia’s National Electricity Market
Guest author, Warwick Forster, examines the delayed but impending move to 5-minute settlement for the NEM and the potential effects on utility scale storage.
UQ presents webinar on the Q1 performance of their 1.1MW Tesla battery
The University of Queensland’s project team that was involved with the installation and operations of their 1.1MW Tesla battery presented a webinar and exhaustive Q&A on the first results of the project.
Some observations about Storage
Last minute complications mean that I cannot speak at today’s “Queensland Smart Energy Summit” (with Jonathon Dyson being an even better substitute). Here are some of the observations I would have liked to discuss with the audience there…