Power outage in Western Australia (incl Kalgoorlie) from Wed 17th Jan 2024
A short record of a significant power outage in Western Australia in January 2024.
Read MoreA series of articles looking at electricity supplies and markets in non-NEM parts of the world, including:
1) Different electricity grids and markets internationally;
2) But also different parts of Australia not connected to the NEM (including Western Australia)
A short record of a significant power outage in Western Australia in January 2024.
Read MorePointing WattClarity readers to FERC’s Final Report into Winter Storm Elliott (the Christmas 2022 storm that contributed to power outages for millions of electricity customers in the Eastern half of North America).
Another quick article today – this to record the rare use of coal in the UK on a cold evening with insufficient other supply.
All’s been quiet in the Australian National Electricity Market … which is not the same as the situation in North America, where extreme cold has stretched supplies across a large swathe of the country and storms have disrupted supply to more than a million people.
Hydrogen explosion in South Africa (at Eskom’s Medupi unit) will inevitably draw comparisons to the explosion at Callide C4 on 25th May 2021. Use caution in following those links!
Following a tight supply-demand balance in New Zealand on a winter Monday evening 9th August 2021, leading to unserved energy, here’s a quick review of what information I could find.
Watching what’s unfolded in Texas over the past 24 hours has been rather disconcerting … but also prompted questions about the broader energy transition. Here are some thoughts.
Some brief data gathering and analysis, primarily because I could not resist the exploration, of what might have happened with the load shedding in the electricity grid across England, Wales and Scotland on Friday last week.
Some very preliminary information (based on an internet search) about factors that might have contributed to the blackout in Argentina and neighbouring parts of South America this week.