Yesterday's release of the draft report of the Nelson Review has prompted me to re-frame a question I've asked before about the Semi-Scheduled category.
In yesterday’s wrap of the past 5 weeks, I’d noted that Tim Nelson (when speaking at #ACES2025 last Tuesday) said that the Panel had not quite finished the draft report, but it was ‘imminent’....
Worth a short note today (Friday 27th June 2025) to note the publication of MN127877 – which references two market changes that will improve market transparency for all types of participants
All public submissions from the initial consultation stage of the Nelson Review are now available on the DCCEEW website.
Submissions at the AEMC already closed over a week ago, with respect to their review of WDRM. Here's some starting thoughts ...
Full financial operation commences 8 June 2025.
The recently announced 'Nelson Review' has opened the initial consultation process from today. Submissions will be open until the 14th of February 2025.
AEMO's Frequency Performance Payments (FPP) project has commenced in production today under "non-financial operation" (NFO).
Chris Bowen this morning announced a new four-person independent panel, who will be given roughly 12 months to review and provide reform recommendations on "wholesale market settings".
This is the first of a two part discussion on the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) Implementation Design Paper (The Paper) released on 1 March 2024. This part will cover its broad objectives and implications....
On Thu 29th Feb 2024 (a day when NSW saw high demand, was stretched in terms of available capacity, and benefited from the electricity and other services provided by soon-to-close Eraring) the Dept of...
A short article (day after release) about the proposed 'Orderly Exit Management Framework' for coal units
A short note about the publication of a richer MT PASA DUID Availability data set in ez2view v9.8 - made possible as a result of the other change that goes live in the NEM...
Very Fast FCAS, because it operates at a faster timescale, can arrest the rise or fall in frequency more rapidly than the current fast service and therefore provides an avenue to mitigate the costs...
In this article we delve in deeper on Thu 30th Jan and Fri 31st Jan 2020 ... two days that saw extreme levels of 'Aggregate Scheduled Target' (i.e. AggSchedTarget - a requirement for firming...
AEMO is re-enabling the ‘MaxAvail’ figure in bids for Semi-Scheduled units. It will act as a limit on capacity available, feeding into the NEMDE dispatch process for the unit. We look at how Semi-Scheduled...
Today (Tue 23rd May) is the go-live date for AEMO's EMMS v5.2 - which will contain new data for some market enhancements. Here's a quick look at where this first change will appear in...
We thought it would be worth linking to Jim Chalmers' article this week in The Monthly, as it seems these ideas will have (more) implications for the National Electricity Market.
A consultation paper (emissions reduction objective in the NEO) has been released, with submissions due 7th Feb 2023.
In GenInsights Quarterly Update for Q3 2022 we included an Appendix exploring what we could observe 'One Year on from Five Minute Settlement'. In this article we share a small slice of what we...