Sophie’s article on RenewEconomy drew our attention to the fact that Offshore Wind Victoria had recently published this 12-page glossy about ‘Victoria offshore wind auction – Australian-fires Request for Proposal now open’.
On Thursday 1st October 2026, energy minister (Chris Bowen) notes that the expansion to the SRES scheme (from 100kW to 1MW) goes live today.
Anita, Gilles and Martin from ERM discuss how coal retirements, the proposed ESEM and new data centre obligations are shifting renewable offtakes beyond energy-only PPAs, rewarding sellers who can package energy, shaping and firming.
Want to operate a production unit in the NEM and gain an exemption from needing to register?
An update on the ESEM design process, following last Friday's energy ministers council meeting and the minutes of the industry-led working group.
Last Thursday 27th August 2026, the AEMC published a consultation paper with respect to ‘Dispatch limits for inverter-based resources’.
We look at five design differences between the Capacity Investment Scheme and the state auction schemes that came before and alongside it — and the improvements we've heard suggested by industry and the Nelson Review panel.
A year on from our 4-part series about the CIS, we take an updated look at the 89 projects awarded across the scheme's five NEM tenders — comparing what proponents have actually announced compared to the status AEMO assigns them for ESOO reliability modelling.
It was on Wednesday 5th August 2026 that the energy minister, Chris Bowen, announced the intention to expand the eligibility of the SRES from the current capacity limit (100kW) up to 1MW installations.
In the final part of this series, David Scott asks whether MPFR and FPP-Reg-FCAS Recovery have delivered on their goals, then uses the data to explore how AEMO might procure Regulation FCAS more dynamically and tune AGC to make better use of it.
In part three of this series, David Scott examines the first year of FPP-Reg-FCAS Recovery settlements, revealing which technologies paid and which were paid, and showing how semi-scheduled wind and solar farms, scheduled generators and batteries have each responded to the new incentives.
In part two of this series, David Scott dives into AEMO's 4-second FPP data to show how dispatch errors are classified as good or bad, how Regulation FCAS usage is measured, and how these calculations translate into FPP payments and Reg-FCAS Recovery charges.
In the first of this four-part series, David Scott explains how loosening frequency control in the NEM led to Mandatory Primary Frequency Response in 2020, and how that problem resurfaced as a settlements issue behind 2025's Frequency Performance Payments and Regulation FCAS reforms.
On 24th March 2026 (i.e. 3 months ago now), the AER published this Consultation paper into possible updates to the AER’s ‘Rebidding and Technical Parameters Guideline’.
Guest author (Dr Julian de Hoog) provides some analysis of what has unfolded over the first year of operation of the new Frequency Performance Payments, (FPP) regime - with a particular focus on solar farms.
Worth a short note to link to this consultation paper from the AEMO re the proposed ‘Development of a staged delivery path (with respect to IPRR)’ … which was published yesterday (Monday 1st June 2026).
We’re approaching the end of May 2026, which means we’re almost 10 months since the 31st July 2025 go-live date for unit-level data (and other changes) in ST PASA. … our ez2view software was upgraded to v9.12 in June 2025 in anticipation of those changes,...
Another short article that might be somewhat cryptic to some readers – pointing to today’s Final Determination from the AEMC about the ‘Early application of a revised transmission Service Target Performance Incentive Scheme’ (a.k.a. STIPS).
As at 4th May 2026 we publish what we know of the Primary Frequency Response (PFR) registration status of the fleet of Semi-Scheduled (i.e. Solar and Wind) units.
AEMO announced an ‘Expedited consultation open on FCAS thresholds under AEMO’s automated procedures for identifying intervals subject to review’,