Former energy executive Ted Woodley has compiled a chronological record of the Hunter Power Station, charting a project defined by policy inconsistencies, shifting justifications, delays, and cost escalations.
With neither unit at the Hunter (formerly Kurri Kurri) Power Station having produced any output since early March, we provide a quick update about the commissioning/testing phase of the station.
One of our keen readers (and ez2view users) has flagged this to us – so we thought we’d post this short note using ez2view to look at delays at the Kurri Kurri peaker (HUNTER GT).
We saw first output from the HUNTER1 unit (the first of two at Snowy Hydro's new peaker) on Sunday 27th July 2025. So we're looking a little further, in this article.
It's not (yet?) a frequent occurrence, so worth noting that AEMO has directed 2 units at Murray to synchronise and operate as a synchronous condenser from 08:00 (NEM time) on Thursday 24th October 2024 (to protect against low System Strength)
Market Notice 118151 jumped out at me, because it pertains to an AEMO Direction to a Market Participant in NSW. Can't recall seeing that very often?
In the second half of this two-part case study we look at a timeline of the Snowy 2.0 project, and discuss the history of mega-projects in the NEM.
A second short article (this one with the benefit of 'next day public' data) looking at the whiplash on VIC1-NSW1 on Sunday 18th June 2023.
Have fielded some questions recently, so thought it easiest to include this snapshot from ez2view ‘Bids and Offers’ widget looking back over the past week from now and filtered down specifically to Snowy Hydro’s Valley Power peaking facility in the Victorian region: I’ve particularly highlighted...
With the benefit of more data available today, can piece together why there was the sudden drop into LOR2 territory on Saturday 1st February 2020 (something that alarmed me, and resulted in AEMO directing a participant to make capacity - just withdrawn - available again).
We take a look at challenges for AEMO in operating the system under the security threats posed by the ongoing bushfires …