Collections of events that we see happening in the NEM, categorised in terms of the seasons in which they occur.
A detailed look at the ‘N::N_UTRV_2’ constraint equation (focusing specifically on the spike at 17:30 on Friday 28th October 2022), drawing heavily on the newly-released 'Constraint Dashboard' widget in ez2view.
A short initial article to note that curtailment of distributed PV is underway in South Australia under processes previously established by the AEMO.
Second article in a growing series about the islanding of South Australia from Saturday 12th November 2022.
An initial article with the islanding of the South Australian region on Saturday evening, 12th November 2022.
A short article about Origin Energy's announcement today.
Callide B2 has returned to service - perhaps a bit earlier than earlier projections noted.
On Sunday 6th November 2022 the NEMwide demand dropped below previous 'lowest point' records.
Following a client request on Friday 4th November, here's a quick look at the low wind conditions occurring on that day.
Alerted via an ABC news article, we take a quick look at Callide C3.
As a sequel to his earlier article, Carl Daley looks at the a number of record corrections in electricity forward prices that occurred yesterday, coming after weeks of decline.
Carl Daley of EnergyByte walks through the 'angry bear response' between market players, and the outcomes and consequences of these actions.
A quick article to document a spike at 11:10 on Monday 31st October ... which seems related (at least in part) to the same network outage as on Friday evening.
Electricity demand in NSW has dropped to a new 'lowest in NEM history' point on Saturday 29th October 2022
A quick look at a brief price spike in NSW and QLD on Friday evening 28th October - which appears to be related to a Ravine -Yass(2) 330kV line outage.
Zooming into the ~7 minute period during which the initial event occurred in TAS on Friday 14th October 2022.
Last Thursday 20th October the Victorian Labor Government, in the midst of seeking re-election, had its own turn at releasing an Energy Policy that caused quite a stir...
Third article on what happened on Friday 14th October 2022 - sharing a photograph of the damaged transmission (thanks to TasNetworks for the photo, and Zeus for the weather) and outlining a number of...
Hot on the heels of a new low point for Operational Demand in South Australia on the weekend, this evening AEMO warns of an ‘elevated risk of contingent disconnection of Distributed PV’ tomorrow (Wed...
On Friday 14th October we saw a significant system event in Tasmania - with storms downing power links, leading to large (530MW) loss of load and trip of Basslink. In this article we take...
Some quick notes of a sizeable loss of load in Tasmania and a volatility situation that is ongoing as I hit 'publish' at 11:50 NEM time.