Seasonal Solar Shapes
A one-on-one conversation today, and a bit of curiosity, drove me to trend NEM-wide Solar yield, capacity factor, and curtailment.
2026-05-18
A collation of articles exploring outcomes and implications of what happened on Monday 18th May 2026 (a day of low VRE).
Broken Hill peaker gets a run in May 2026
A preconfigured ez2view alert has noted GB01 running a few times in recent days ... so we take a quick initial look.
Reviewing Monday 18th May 2026 (gas generation actuals, compared to expectations)
Third article progressively exploring outcomes and implications of what happened on Monday 18th May 2026 (a day of low VRE). In this article we look at gas-fired generation.
The absence of the ‘duck curve’ on Monday 18th May 2026 stands out, in recent history
Yesterday's low VRE conditions delivered a distinctly different market outcome (Mon 18th May 2026) than seen in the prior 8 days.
Final version of AEMO’s ‘go live’ plan for Basslink Conversion published on 18th May 2026
Belatedly noting that it was on 18th May 2026 that the AEMO published this ‘Basslink Conversion to Regulated Transmission Network Service Provider 1 July 2026’ Go Live Plan here.
A snapshot of the generation mix across the NEM, on Monday morning 18th May 2026
A snapshot of the generation mix across the NEM on Monday morning 18th May 2026