In November 2024 the Federal Government commissioned a leading energy economist, Tim Nelson, to lead a major review into the future of the NEM.
We’ll refer to this as ‘the Nelson Review’.
We have a hypothesis for what the cause of these counter-cyclic oscillations (between price and demand) in NSW on Monday 12th October 2026. As a first step in exploring this hypothesis, here is a wall of numbers...
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’.
An update on the ESEM design process, following last Friday's energy ministers council meeting and the minutes of the industry-led working group.
The final report of the Nelson Review has been released alongside a ministerial council communique, with ministers agreeing in principle to the review’s core recommendations, with the exception of Queensland.
Flagging (from the AEMO rule change request on 14th November 2025) the request to extend Notice of Closure to 5 years ... and to remind readers of thoughts already submitted to the Nelson Review panel about this.
With All Energy happening this week in Melbourne, plus the clock ticking down on preparations at the Nelson Review Panel for their final report, I've reached back to the NEMdev conference to write about 2 big concerns with the draft Recommendations 2A and 2B.
Following my presentation at NEMdev 2025 (on 8th Oct 2025), here are some suggestions that the Nelson Review panel might consider - with respect to forecasting.
In the final part of our four-part CIS series, we zoom out to examine what government-backed Contract-for-Difference schemes are really achieving — drawing on policy lessons from the Nelson Review.
For short term reasons (related to the Nelson Review and the NEMDev conference) and longer-term reasons, we thought it was useful to post this as a stand-alone article now.
Continuing to walk through the draft Report of the Nelson Review, we see that the authors 'identified that most historic policy interventions have been incomplete' (i.e. speak to the Schism).
In part because I'm speaking at the NEMDev conference (Wed 8th Oct 2025 in Brisbane) we're taking a pass through the draft Report of the Nelson Review. Some (more realistic than earlier Reviews) statements about the extent of Demand Response in the NEM jumped out.
Here's three high-level questions we've been trying to keep in mind, in our reading of the draft Report of the Nelson Review panel - for some belated (informal) submissions here on WattClarity.
I thought it would be useful to pull together this (incomplete) tabulated list of major reviews in the history of the NEM.
Yesterday (Wed 6th Aug 2025) we saw the draft report from the ‘Nelson Review’ Panel released ... followed by a presentation by the panel members facilitated by The Energy. The recording of this webinar is now available, and here it is.
In yesterday’s wrap of the past 5 weeks, I’d noted that Tim Nelson (when speaking at #ACES2025 last Tuesday) said that the Panel had not quite finished the draft report, but it was ‘imminent’. So here’s a brief article today to note that the draft...
Given the instructions were ‘Feel free to share it more widely with your colleagues and networks’, here's the slide deck from the Nelson Review presentations through May 2025.
As noted in yesterday evening’s article (about one big ‘wrinkle’), I was off to the Brisbane session of the Nelson Review today. Here's two slides that jumped out.
From Monday 5th May to Friday 9th May 2025 was like an unofficial Energy Week in Melbourne for me, out-and-about at a few events. Here's my record of some of what happened...
All public submissions from the initial consultation stage of the Nelson Review are now available on the DCCEEW website.
The recently announced 'Nelson Review' has opened the initial consultation process from today. Submissions will be open until the 14th of February 2025.