A catalogue of articles pertaining to eventful days in 2025
On Friday 29th May 2026, the AEMO alsodeclared Scheduling Errors (together anointed number 76), with respect to the joint glitches on Thu 6th Nov 2025 and Tue 11th Nov 2025.
About the AEMO’s Reviewable Operating Incident Report ‘Self-forecasting errors and frequency excursion on 19 August 2025’.
A belated and back-dated article, dated for 19th February 2026, which was when the AEMO declared a ‘Scheduling Error’ – Incident #74 with respect to 16th October 2025
The recent article in ESD News about ‘Major project: Pelican Point Power Station upgrade’, and the release of the GSD2025, prompted us to take a look.
Market demand in Victoria has been tracking above AEMO’s earlier P30 forecasts so far today, increasing the likelihood that the region’s 17-year demand record could be challenged.
I don’t have time to delve into this rabbit hole at this point, but other analysis made me wonder about Queanbeyan BESS, so I’ve used the ‘Trends Engine’ in ez2view to quickly post this.
It was a little over 38 hours ago that that we published ‘Forecast for coincident MSL2 on Thursday 1st January 2026 (in Victoria and South Australia)’. So we take an updated look at forecast for 'Market Demand' on Thursday 1st Jan 2026.
As calendar 2025 draws to a close I thought it might also be of interest to trend 16 years of spot LGC price data.
Also worth pointing readers here to the 27-page presentation delivered on 5th November 2025 by ASL following modelling of possible evolution of ‘Resilience to Variable Renewable Energy Lulls’ into the future in a climate changed world.
On Thursday 11th December 2025 the Net Zero Australia collaborative organisation released its latest publication, being this ‘Topical Report #2 Australia’s Progress to Net Zero by 2050’:
This article (at least in part) is because of AEMO’s Market Notices today of ‘forecast MSL2’ for both Victoria and South Australia looking forward to Thursday 1st January 2026.
With respect to today (Friday 26th December 2025) we’ll just leave you with this NEMwatch snapshot at 12:25 (NEM time)
A quick look at the directions to Blyth BESS as part of managing Actual MSL1 and Actual MSL2 in South Australia on Thursday 25th December 2025.
Another thing that happened Christmas Day 2025 was the initial output from Vales Point 5, which has been offline since August 2025 following ‘turbine vibrations’. But its return to service has not been smooth.
Cool and clear conditions in the south of the NEM sees new 'lowest ever' points for Market Demand established in both VIC and SA on Thursday 25th December 2025.
It’s Wednesday 23rd December 2025, and Brisbanites have sweated through a night that saw the overnight *minimum* 'Market Demand' be the highest ever.
It’s Monday 22nd December 2025 and the Federal Government has released it’s much-awaited Gas Market Review report.
It seemed that it might be worth documenting a +460MW jump in ‘Market Demand’ in NSW on Saturday afternoon to 13:10 (NEM time) on 20th December 2025.
Another short article about (what looks to be) another period of VRE-induced frequency weakness, this one on Sunday afternoon 21st December 2025.
The minimum reserve available is projected to be 664 MW between 16:00 and 17:00.