Collections of events that we see happening in the NEM, categorised in terms of the seasons in which they occur.
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 different timescales that could be considered with respect to this event.
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 19th Oct 2022).
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 a first look at the sequence of events…
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.
Third article today about major outages – this one looking at current expectations for RTS for Loy Yang A2 after some apparent slippage.
One of many articles in the AFR this week flagged an extension of major outage on Kogan Creek Power Station. In this article we take a quick initial look.
A quick initial look at (what appears to be) a strange aberration in the AEMO forecast data, with load shedding briefly forecast in NSW tomorrow morning.
A short article with the Victorian ‘Market Demand’ dropping to new low point for minimum demand on Sunday 2nd October 2022.
It’s taken longer than expected – but today I’ve posted this article that goes some way to answering the question ‘to what extent was solar production disappointing through periods of Q2 2022?’
On Wednesday 28th September 2022 the Queensland Government has launched its much awaited Energy Policy.
A short article on Sunday 25th September 2022 to record some new low points for ‘minimum demand’ in the NSW region, and on a NEMwide basis.
Dan Lee provides some exploratory calculations in order to estimate the total cost of maintaining electricity supply throughout a very turbulent June.
‘Minimum Demand’ for the QLD region (in recent years and excluding 25th May 2021) drops lower still on Sunday 11th September 2022.
A follow-on second look at the volatility experienced in South Australia around midnight beginning Thursday 8th September 2022.
A run of volatility in South Australia lasting ~90 minutes triggered a few alerts.
A quick marker for some volatility thus far today in South Australia.
Lachlan McLeod of Ekistica writes this short article following the recent release of an ARENA report looking into performance ratios used to compare solar pv operations.
A quick second article today, with IRPM down below 15% on a NEM-wide basis.
In this article we take a quick look at how today’s widespread cloud cover is affecting solar production across QLD.
This morning have been greeted to a run of SMS alerts for volatility in South Australia.