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.
This is the first 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...
Paul McArdle recently drew my attention to a short Twitter thread started by David Osmond on the arcane topic of NEM system frequency behaviour: At Paul’s invitation I’ve dived further into this issue...
UQ's Andrew Wilson pens a case study on the market events that occured on Tuesday the 13th of October in the QLD region, in which he examines the relative performance of UQ's 1.1MW behind-the-meter...
On Thursday 22nd October, the AEMO also released a short document titled ‘Operational management of low demand in South Australia'.
Patricia Boyce' challenging question coincided with the low point of cyclic wind output across the NEM this afternoon, and prompted some thinking...
Patricia Boyce examines a chart that was included in the AEMO's Renewable Integration Study, which depicted actual and modelled solar and wind generation output against underlying demand. She then looks at whether intermittent generators...
Guest author Stephen Wilson chaired an 'ESIG Down Under' conference webinar on 'Designing the Energy Markets of the Future'. Whilst introducing the session, Stephen presented a diagram that helped to clarify the combination of...
Considerations on how key aspects of the upcoming wholesale mechanism might dictate how much response capability will be realised once the mechanism goes live before Summer 2021-22
A couple glimmers of hope spotted recently, that there might be some (belated) awareness that the current methods of support for 'anytime/anywhere energy' are not scalable, or sustainable.
University of Queensland PhD candidate, Nicole Lashmar, is conducting a research project which aims to identify the motivations, risks and opportunities for businesses when deciding to participate in demand response programs.
A short article providing access to the much-talked-about report.
In a sneak preview of part of next Thursday's Clean Energy Council webinar, Marcelle compares the spot revenue performance of wind farms across the NEM.
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.
Following on from Friday's article (which considered the AER Issues Paper) this article delves into more detail of those extremes of 'Aggregate Raw Off-Target' across all Semi-Scheduled units that have been recorded over the...
Prompted by the recent AER Issues Paper (submissions on that due today - Friday 24th July) but also aware that I've not yet published some broader thoughts in response to the ESB's requests for...
Marcelle digs into the data to find out what the real issues are in the AER's proposed rule change for semi-scheduled generators.
Here's an attempt to translate the concern underlying the AER Issues Paper into 'plain English' via the popular song.
During another week that showed signs of the challenges facing all generators (new and old) in relation to spot prices for energy, invitations were delivered for discussions that will happen on 15th July.
It's not a surprise to me to see that someone (the AER in this case) has released an Issues Paper canvassing options for changing the way Semi-Scheduled generators interact with the dispatch process. Not...
SwitchDin's Joseph Kassouf examines the real-world challenges of coordinating control of rooftop solar inverters.