A large collection of articles pertaining to the ongoing ‘Energy Transition’ in any of a number of ways.
Specific sub-categories relate to such things as Coal Closure, and other aspects of the transition.
Also worth pointing readers here to the 27-page presentation delivered on 5th November 2025 by ASL following modelling of possible evolution of ‘Resilience to Variable Renewable Energy Lulls’ into the future in a climate...
Paul Bandarian and David Leitch from ITK Services share modelling results for a post-coal NEM, arguing today’s electricity prices can be maintained if batteries become the dominant price-forming technology and solar is structurally supported.
We thought it might be useful to point directly to the 61-page report ‘Managing the Transition to Renewable Energy’ by the Victorian Auditor-General.
Following media reporting from Monday about 'blackouts' and 'Eraring closure', today (Wednesday 3rd December) there's a media report about 'blackouts' and 'Yallourn closure'
At 13:55 on Tuesday 2nd December 2025, the AEMO published MN131337 as an update earlier MT PASA updates (continuing to forecast Low Reserve Condition for NSW for periods between August 2027 to November 2027).
I’ve been away for the past week and am not back at work yet, but seeing the headline ‘AEMO warns of NSW blackouts if Eraring closes in 2027’ by Angela MacDonald-Smith in the AFR...
On Friday afternoon we asked the question ‘What’s up with Waratah BESS (unplanned outage till 3rd May 2026)?’. It was great to see (on Monday evening) Angela MacDonald-Smith answer some of these questions in...
Almost exactly 3 months ago we posted a ~12 month chronological record of the history of Waratah BESS. Due to observations today (and questions and conversations leading from them) it was worthwhile to update...
In this guest-authored article, Connor James explains the upcoming changes to the DMO, including the much publicised Solar Sharer Offer (SSO), and potential implications for energy sellers in NSW, SEQ, and SA.
It’s approaching 10 years since (in April 2016) we asked the question ‘What happens when energy is free?’. Well, this morning (Tuesday 4th November 2025) Minister Chris Bowen dropped the Media Release that speaks...
On Sunday (following from the discussion at the NEMdev conference in Brisbane a few weeks ago, and leading into this week’s All Energy 2025 in Melbourne) I highlighted these ‘Two *big concerns* that we...
A quick note to point readers here to the AEMO news update ‘AEMO progressing transitional system security services’ published today (Friday 24th October 2025).
Having already noted the ‘Weakness in frequency stability on Thursday afternoon 16th October 2025’, we take a look at the causes - for the four high-profile dispatch intervals.
One day after the conclusion of the inaugural NEMdev 2025 conference (during which the CIS was discussed), the announcement was made of the winners of the Tender Round 4 of the Capacity Investment Scheme.
With the Queensland state government’s new energy roadmap due out tomorrow, Greg Elkins highlights how distorted signals and state interventions expose a new NEM failure.
Worth copying in here AEMO's Market Notice 129413 published late Friday afternoon 3rd October 2025 pertaining to the coming two-year period - because of some changes and other notes.
I alluded to the following comments in Wednesday’s article about the possible early closure of Gladstone Power Station … though we did not have time to note them at the time. We were not...
Yesterday (Wed 1st Oct 2025) we had follow-on news about Torrens B, with the Premier of South Australia announcing that ‘Government negotiates energy security agreement’.
Continuing to walk through the draft Report of the Nelson Review, we see that the authors 'identified that most historic policy interventions have been incomplete' (i.e. speak to the Schism).
A very short article here from us today to point readers here to the ABC News article ‘Rio Tinto's Gladstone coal-fired power station could be retired early’ from earlier today