Overview of Regulation FCAS costs in 2024
This article reviews regulation FCAS costs in 2024, relative to maximum capacity, and uncovers drivers behind high non-scheduled unit costs.
FCAS cost recovery
Regulation prices and enablement – a historical review
The introduction of frequency performance payments in 2025 changes how costs of regulating frequency are quantified and allocated. This article inspects historical trends in regulation FCAS enablement levels and prices.
How many Semi-Scheduled units were submitting Self-Forecasts through 2023 (and how many of these were actually used in dispatch)?
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...
First night of living on an island … with SA disconnected from the rest of the NEM
Third article for Sunday 13th November 2022 - this one taking a quick look at some pricing activity in the ENERGY market overnight.
“Rise of the Machines” – the increasing role of auto-bidding and self-forecasting in the modern-day NEM
On Thursday 17th March, Jonathon Dyson presented at the CEC Wind Industry Forum in Melbourne about the increasing role of auto-bidding and self-forecasting in the modern-day NEM. In this article, he shares some of...
Ranking wind farm performance and FCAS costs in the NEM in 2020
Which wind farms performed best in 2020? Marcelle extracts data from the GSD2020 to compare spot (and LGC) revenue, and FCAS cost performance, across wind farms in the NEM.
Ranking solar farm FCAS costs in the NEM in 2020
Following recent articles on spot market revenue earned by solar farms in the NEM in 2020, Marcelle takes a look at their FCAS costs.
Marcelle Gannon to share insights (this Thu 11th March 2021) at CEC Large-Scale Solar Forum
Here's three key insights to listen for this Thursday ... when Marcelle Gannon speaks at the CEC's Large-Scale Solar (virtual) Forum.
PPAs aren’t as easy as they used to be!
This is the fourth of a short series of video snippets extracted from the 17th September 2020 presentation by Marcelle Gannon and Jonathon Dyson for the Clean Energy Council entitled ‘Maximising Profitability in the...