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.
It was an article in the AFR, on the 6th of February 2024, that drew our attention back to generator closures. Engie have announced the early closure of Snuggery and Port Lincoln Power Stations.
Ben Skinner asks some philosophical questions about the Retail Reliability Obligation (RRO), and provides some commentary about its past and future.
A brief record, using ez2view, of the very early output data for EnergyAustralia's Tallawarra B station.
The third and final part of this series of articles from Greg Williams about opportunity costs in electricity markets - this time narrowing in on policy implications.
A short article to note another view (this one from Clean Energy Finance) on whether Eraring can close in 2025.
Clutch's Mitch Baker has shared his initial thoughts and questions that jumped out to him from reading the AEMO's 2024 draft ISP.
This article (Part 3) follows on from Part 1 and Part 2, which looked at four successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days.
Following the 4th successive trip/outage at Loy Yang A4 in recent days - and updating Tuesday's earlier article.
With Challicum Hills Wind Farm recently celebrating its 20th anniversary, Dan Lee takes a look into the long-term trend of technical and commercial performance of the oldest wind farms in the NEM.
Today we take a look back at the operation of Stanwell unit 1 over the past 3 years ... but particularly since its return from a Major Outage in September 2023
A quick look at 3 successive trips at Loy Yang A4 in returning back from a recent forced outage.
Remembering a question that were were asked by a client in December 2023 (about Yallourn power station) we take a quick look at the start of 2024.
A short article (day after release) about the proposed 'Orderly Exit Management Framework' for coal units
New guest author (Aditya Upadhye) posts some thoughts about Generator Compliance Management - especially in the light of AER's stated priority of ‘improve market participants compliance with performance standards and standards for critical infrastructure’...
The second part of an ongoing case study examining two successive days of low VRE generation in early July 2023. This part examines IRPM, earlier forecasts of available generation and maps the availability by...
A bout of severe weather for many parts of south-eastern Australia brought challenging weather conditions which appear to have impacted variable renewable energy forecasts for the NEM. The case study delves into forecast differences...
This morning I was fortunate to listen into an ESIG Webinar with respect to their report 'Weather Dataset Needs for Planning and Analyzing Modern Power Systems'
Tristan Edis from Green Energy Trading discusses whether a surge in renewable energy projects and battery capacity would be sufficient to fill any reliability gap before (and after) Eraring's scheduled closure.
Guest author, Allan O'Neil, takes a detailed look at how VIC1-NSW1 transfer capability has been limited frequently due to constraints related to the 051 line in southern NSW, and what it means in terms...
The first part of a Case Study looking at a large 5-minute ramp in 'Aggregate Scheduled Target' in the middle of the day (an unusual time) on Friday 8th September 2023