A catalogue of events through 2026 … though note these are typically catalogued by days within the year
Given the heightened level of interest in the progressive release of capacity on Project Energy Connect (and some strange initial outcomes) worth another article on Wednesday 4th November 2026 noting MN146032
We note that flow west on PEC Stage 2 has ramped up below its prior export limit (as the first stage of testing) of 150MW
On Tuesday morning 4th November 2026 there was a brief period where AEMO directed TransGrid to disconnect inverters at Finley Solar Farm. We're trying to understand, in market data.
A short evening article to look forward to the 09:00 dispatch interval on Wednesday 4th November 2026 to show increased Export and Import flow limits on the way for Project Energy Connect:
Following his talk on Day 1 at All-Energy 2026, Henry Swisher from OptiGrid explains why there’s no set-and-forget strategy for trading batteries in the NEM, and how risk appetite, contracts and portfolios shape what ‘optimal’ really looks like.
Directions to briefly disconnect three wind farms in Victoria for System Strength on morning of 28 October 2026
Whilst most eyes are on All Energy 2026 this week (and justifiably so), I’ll be listening for inputs to my involvement in the 2026 Griffith Energy Policy Summit coming up on Wednesday 18th November 2026.
Eleven days ago we wrote about how ‘Baseload Futures prices climbing, into 2026 Q4’. Here's one contributing factor (but *not* the only one).
Today (Friday 23rd October 2026) throws up yet another example of market behaviours and outcomes (in this case some oscillations in Market Demand in Victoria) that provide a good test case for the functionality in the soon-to-be-released ez2view Mobile App.
A very short article on Thursday 22nd October 2026 looking at the ‘Q-NIL_BI_RADIAL’ constraint set.
Of interest to us is a session at All Energy 2026 I'd paraphrase as 'Autobidders (and optimisers) at twenty paces'. Might see you there?
Each NEM stakeholder (participant, spectator and commentator) might sum up emerging themes in different ways - I'm sharing 3 Themes I see (and wonder how they will be discussed at All Energy).
Around midday on Monday 19th October 2026, there was an unplanned outage of Murraylink. The AEMO Market Notice about this notes about Protected Industrial Action (but I don't understand if there is a link?)
Last Monday’s spot price volatility in New South Wales has prompted gigatokens’ worth of analysis on social and mainstream media. This post aims to cut through all these to the proximate cause?
In this article, we take an initial look at (restricted) flow capability south over QNI during Monday afternoon (12th October 2026), to help support the rising NSW demand - hence feeding into the volatility.
In this article we take the estimated gross injections from Small Solar (both AEMO and APVI estimates) across both days – and compare them, to gain some sense of what the quantum and timing of ‘missing’ Small Solar might have been on Monday 12th October...
For both Thu 15th and Fri 16th Oct 2026, AEMO issued similar market notices, stating 'Lack Of Reserve Level 2 (LOR2) condition NOT declared in the QLD Region...'
Demand-side responses did occur in the face of large NSW price fluctuations.
Referring to the ‘framework for exploring what factors were contributing to the volatility in NSW on Monday 12th October 2026’ , we explore/explain broader Demand-Side factors.
Following this ‘framework for exploring what factors were contributing to the volatility in NSW on Monday 12th October 2026’ , we take a look at supply-side factors (including beyond coal unit unavailability).