After Wednesday's first SIPS test, the Waratah Super Battery successfully completed its second this afternoon, as it inches closer to commercial operations.
A short post to note that the Waratah Super Battery tested its full SIPS capacity of 700MW for around two hours yesterday morning — the first time it was able to do this since last October's transformer failure.
Fire has damaged Tungatinah Hydro Power Station in Tasmania, out indefinitely.
Last Thursday 27th August 2026, the AEMC published a consultation paper with respect to ‘Dispatch limits for inverter-based resources’.
We noted a ~500MW jump in 'Market Demand' in Victoria just after 11:00 on Friday 28th August 2026 that was not forecast in advance. We wonder about 'three hours free' effects...
The Stanwell Power Station coal units are some of the best performing coal units in the NEM … which is what made this full-load trip on Thursday 27th August 2026 just prior to 12:00 unusual.
Prompted by a RenewEconomy article, curiosity about the new Quorn Park Hybrid Facility (Solar/BESS) led me to this article.
On Tuesday 25 August SA Power Networks had planned to conduct its annual test of its ability to temporarily curtail rooftop solar generation.
This article is a first look inside the 2026 ESOO. It looks more at how the modelling is framed, and results presented - rather than the details of the modelling itself.
Breaking a run of a Thursday Release in late August over 3 consecutive preceding years, the AEMO released the 2026 ESOO on Tuesday 25th August 2026. Here's a first article, with links to news media coverage.
Noting that the Tamar Valley CCGT station switched back online again, from Monday afternoon 24th August 2026.
For reasons I won’t go into here, we’re taking a particular interest in the major (planned) outage at Tarong unit 3 - with the unit coming offline yesterday (Friday morning 21st August 2026), and planned to be offline until Friday 6th November 2026.
Earlier this week, we looked at the first round of AEMO modelled MT PASA results for the Project EnergyConnect, and had some questions. After some digging, we think we understand...
Our ez2view alerts notified me that Tamar Valley CCGT in Tasmania finally came offline on Thursday morning 20th August 2026 (after an operational period of more than 30 days).
Krishan Pal Birda from Rystad takes a look at winter 2026 gas demand in south-eastern Australia, and explores what it might mean for future years.
Something I'm currently puzzled about, with respect to the trend of peak aggregate production across Wind Farms.
Following this morning's article, here's one more view (via ez2view) of PEC Stage 2 in the first MT PASA solutions run.
A short note about some gyrations in 'Market Demand' we've seen, on Wednesday 19th August 2026.
Following a reader's comment earlier in the week, we take a first look at the major planned outage at Poatina Hydro station.
I was curious to see how the PEC Stage 2 (i.e. NSW1-SA1) is being represented in the new data sets now appearing in the MT PASA process. Hence this initial view, which prompts questions.