Highest-ever wind yield … *and* worst wind yield since June 2017!
… it does not seem logical that both can be true, but (from our look at the numbers) it does appear to be!
Long-Term Market trends and forecasts
Updated long-range trend of aggregate wind production statistics
An accompanying article, to update this trend of long-range production statistics for all wind farms (aggregated) across the NEM.
Increase in NSW to QLD transfer limit on QNI to 850MW
AEMO note that (from 10:00 on Wed 10th April 2024) the QNI export limit will increase to a possible 850MW … we take a quick look at history.
Need for speed: How long has each battery project in the NEM taken to deliver?
Elon Musk’s ‘100 days or it’s free’ offer was made almost exactly 7 years ago – how much longer or shorter have battery development delivery times changed since then?
Antony Stace’s question about the step change (down) in QLD demand forecasts in AEMO MT PASA runs during February 2024
A question this morning by Antony Stace (on LinkedIn) about AEMO’s demand forecasts for QLD prompts some further context here in this WattClarity article, with quick use of ez2view.
State-of-charge: a peek into the economics and performances within the NEM’s battery fleet
A review of battery storage market performance in the NEM throughout 2023, a year in which where we saw the battery fleet double in size.
A long-range trend of large instances of Aggregate Raw Off-Target (AggROT) across all Semi-Scheduled units
The second article today (falling out of analysis for GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4) presenting a long-term trend of the incidence of large instances of Aggregate Raw Off-Target across the growing number of Semi-Scheduled units operating in the NEM.
A 20-year trend of large instances of Aggregate Raw Off-Target (AggROT) across 44 x coal units to 31st Dec 2023
A first article today (falling out of analysis for GenInsights Quarterly Update for 2023 Q4) presenting a long-term trend of the incidence of large instances of Aggregate Raw Off-Target across the 44 x operational coal units currently operating in the NEM. A hypothesis as to the cause of recent changes, and some questions …
So where does NSW peak demand on Thu 29th Feb 2024 sit in historical context?
Putting the high demand seen in NSW on Thu 29th Feb 2024 in historical context.
Summer 2023-24 demand – high or low?
Inspired (or provoked) by Paul’s earlier article noting ‘NEM-wide demand has been quite low through summer 2023-24 (at least to date)’, guest author Allan O’Neil takes a look at how aggregate consumption stacks up for this summer, compared to prior.
Putting Monday’s record-breaking demand in QLD into context (22nd Jan 2024)
Still trying to make sense of what did and didn’t happen in QLD last night, Dan Lee provides some context to how yesterday’s record-breaking demand compares to similar historical events.
14-year trend in growth of maximum demand in Queensland
A short post looking back >14 years over trends of daily maximum demand in QLD
Hiccups over, at Loy Yang A4? (Part 3)
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.
The early wind farms reaching 20 years: how are they performing?
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.
What’s been happening at Stanwell unit 1 since September 2023? (Part 1)
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
2023-24 GenCost consultation draft released – just before Xmas 2023
A short (and belated) article about the CSIRO’s GenCost draft report … and some associated media coverage.
An initial review of Cohuna Solar Farm through 2023 – including bushfire effects (related to electrical equipment onsite?)
Noting an earlier article on PV Magazine about a direction from Energy Safe Victoria relating to the Cohuna Solar Farm, we take a quick initial look at operations in the AEMO market data.
Two (of four) Major Rectification Outages at Yallourn performed. Have they improved plant performance (Part 1)?
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.
Out with a bang or a whimper? And a puzzle or two.
Guest author Allan O’Neil continues our series of posts on very low system demand levels in South Australia and Victoria on New Year’s Eve, with a few unresolved questions remaining
Recapping the accelerating decline in ‘Minimum Demand’ levels across the NEM, at the end of 2023
A tabular summary of how ‘declining demand’ has been an accelerating theme in most regions of the NEM (and NEM-wide) through 2023.