Because it’s been the topic of some internal discussions since it occurred at 14:40 (NEM time) on Monday 14th September 2026, here’s a quick record of some salient details
I was a still away when (last Friday 11th September) I could not help but notice this update on LinkedIn from Hydro Tasmania that starts with the startling sentence ‘It's been just over a week since a fire destroyed Tungatinah Power Station.’!
Yesterday (Tue 15th Sept 2026) we noticed Significant oscillations in ‘Market Demand’ in VIC, and also saw notable frequency fluctuations. We look at Dispatch Error.
We might return to this later (time permitting) but just wanted to capture these oscillations in ‘Market Demand’ in Victoria on Tuesday afternoon 15th September 2026 – via this NEMwatch snapshot at 13:45 (NEM time).
Earlier, we noted ‘Unit trip at Loy Yang A1 on Monday morning 7th September 2026 (part 1)’. Here we follow that on with two more snapshots from ez2view to look at the outage in a little more depth.
A reader has notified us of a unit trip at Loy Yang A1 unit last Monday 7th September 2026 – so we take a quick initial look at the trip in the 5-minutes within the 04:00 dispatch interval
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.