On Wednesday 15th January 2025 the AEMC decided to make a temporary rule change (which will come into effect from 23 January 2025) relating to mothballed Snuggery and Port Lincoln power stations in South Australia.
Read MoreAnother for your Xmas Reading List? This one from the AEMC, in publishing its Final Determination last Thursday 19th December 2024 for the ‘Integrating price-responsive resources into the NEM’.
On Friday 20th December 2024 we saw the release of the Final Report from the Select Committee on Energy Planning and Regulation in Australia, which has been run by the Australian Senate in recent months
A 2024 review of the trend in the very fast FCAS services captures enablements, availabilities and costs.
Nineteen projects were announced as winners in the government’s CIS announcement yesterday – including seven standalone solar farms and six standalone wind farms.
The recently announced ‘Nelson Review’ has opened the initial consultation process from today. Submissions will be open until the 14th of February 2025.
AEMO’s Frequency Performance Payments (FPP) project has commenced in production today under “non-financial operation” (NFO).
Semi-scheduled generators shouldn’t treat self-forecasts as commercial parameters. The regulator holds significant concerns with the biasing of self-forecasts for commercial benefit.
Chris Bowen this morning announced a new four-person independent panel, who will be given roughly 12 months to review and provide reform recommendations on “wholesale market settings”.
Worth noting the proposed ‘Firm Energy Reliability Mechanism’ from the South Australian Government – with live online information session Monday 25th November 2024.
Whilst publishing articles here today about Rule Change Proposals, it’s worth me also flagging the ECA proposal for ‘Access to real time data for consumers’.
Today the AEMC weekly email notes that:
‘We will use the standard rules consultation process to assess Delta Electricity’s proposal to allow cash as credit support. We received a valid objection to the proposed use of the expedited process, meaning the standard approach will be used instead.’ Also today was the closure date for submissions (as noted in the Consultation Paper).
Frank Calabria (CEO of Origin) spoke at a CEDA Lunch in Sydney on Monday 4th November 2024. Here’s what he said.
James Tetlow of Overwatch Energy shares this article which is adapted from his presentation about BESS operations in the NEM at the recent All-Energy conference in Melbourne.
A summary of the key challenges facing standalone solar and wind farms over the past several years, along with discussion and thoughts about whether new rules surrounding hybrids systems will address these.
Following on from earlier articles about price volatility on Tue 30th July 2024 (particularly in South Australia), guest author Allan O’Neil takes a closer look at the operation of battery units in South Australia.
It’s day 1 of the CEC’s Clean Energy Summit … perhaps a fitting day to see first operations of a (single unit) bi-directional unit?!
Today, 4 July 2024, we see the first bidirectional units (BDUs) effective in Production in the Australian NEM (National Electricity Market). This new category of unit was created to improve integration of energy storage systems into the NEM. Changes to…
With the clock ticking down to the staggered migration of battery unit registrations to the new BDU (bi-directional unit) format, in this article we recap our current expectations.
Ellise Janetzki posts this overview about operating hybrid plants, following her presentation at the Clean Energy Council’s ALSSSS event in Brisbane earlier this week.