The past few days in South Australia have revealed some of the underlying implications of the current ‘shallow storage only’ approach to new energy storage asset development in this Energy Transition.
A quick look at what might be some bumps in the return to service journey (on 1st and 2nd April 2026) for Reece unit 2.
A quick initial look at what looks to be a 14-hour run of Dispatch Error at Macarthur Wind Farm (perhaps due to some gremlin in AWEFS?)
In Part 5, we’ll look at Dispatch Error for all Wind Farm Units (i.e. the Semi-Scheduled ones only) at 03:05 on Thursday 2nd April 2026, following the trip of Kogan Creek.
The AEMO has published its preliminary report into the suspension of the NSW spot market on 23 March 2026 — an event triggered by a SCADA-related issue that interrupted normal dispatch and pricing processes.
Peeling another layer on responses to this morning's trip of Kogan Creek, and the responses of other coal units, which appear to have been mostly helpful.
We take a first look at Aggregate Dispatch Error (by Fuel Type, NEM-wide) in relation to the Frequency Drop following trip of Kogan Creek early Thursday morning 2nd April 2026.
Following the (~full load) trip of KPP_1 this morning (Thu 2nd April 2026) we take a first look at frequency response.
Our ‘Notifications’ widget in ez2view triggered this morning at 03:06 (NEM time) on Thursday 2nd April 2026 to alert us to a trip of the Kogan Creek coal unit.
The REECE2 unit has been out of service since what might have been a fire onsite on 5th August 2025. This morning (Wednesday 1st April 2026) we saw the first glimpses of output in an ez2view alert.
Several recent conversations with different people prompted a look at the (under commissioning) Wambo Wind Farm via the GSD2025 and our Software. We share some of this here.
We use a chart to see how semi-scheduled unit availabilities changed their origin. With interruptions to SCADA across NSW, many of the inputs that an availability forecast depends on could have been impacted.
A short (and somewhat cryptic) post about the ‘N>>NIL_060_051’ constraint equation during NSW Market Suspension on Monday 23rd March 2026.
One feature of a market suspension is the possibility for suspension pricing, which happened in this case. Did it influence energy offers?
Energy storage levels of NSW grid scale batteries are analysed for behaviour on 23 March 2026.
Another* of our keen readers (and ez2view users) flagged some more machinations to us with respect to Waratah BESS that occurred yesterday (Monday 23rd March 2026).
One of our keen readers (and ez2view users) has flagged this to us – so we thought we’d post this short note using ez2view to look at delays at the Kurri Kurri peaker (HUNTER GT).
A short note to follow the earlier note about MN135948 with the MN136023 published at 17:54:22 about Market Resumption
Following our observations of "Riding the yo-yo, during NSW market suspension" we inspect system frequency during the day.
A number of our ez2view 'large change in demand' alerts have triggered this afternoon Monday 23rd March 2026 with respect to NSW. But what's a 'real' change and what's 'phantom' (with the SCADA issues)?